Book review: Boffin: a Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
R.M. Trim
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Optics ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Personal Story

Book reviews: R. Hanbury Brown, Boffin: a personal story of the early days of radar, radio astronomy and quantum optics

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Optics ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Cross Correlation ◽  
Philosophical Magazine ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Fourier Transform

R. Hanbury Brown, Boffin: a personal story of the early days of radar, radio astronomy and quantum optics . Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1991, £17.50. ISBN 0-750-30130-9 It is doubtful if many scientists noticed the last paragraph of a mathematical paper published in 1954 by R. Hanbury Brown and R.Q. Twiss in the Philosophical Magazine . In this paper they gave the theory of a new type of interferometer for the measurement of the angular diameter of sources of radio emission. Unlike the Michelson type of optical interferometer extended to radio wavelengths, which depended on the combination of the signals from the two aerials before detection so that the relative phases were preserved, this new instrument was based upon the correlation between the rectified outputs of two independent receivers at each end of the baseline. Information about the relative phases was lost but in their Philosophical Magazine paper the authors showed that the cross correlation coefficient between the rectified outputs would be proportional to the square of the amplitude of the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution across the source.

Book Review: Another Personal Story

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
Leonie Sturge-Moore
Keyword(s):  
Personal Story

scholarly journals A Personal Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Science Teaching ◽  
Personal Story

Book Review Matthews, Michael. 2021. History, Philosophy and Science Teaching: A Personal Story. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. ISBN: 978-981-16-0557-4 - Hardcover Book 139.99, USD, E-book 109.00 USD.

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