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RefNoEC/1960/02
Previous numbersCert XVI, 268; A00948
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TitleBrown, Robert Hanbury: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionCertificate of Election
CitationHanbury Brown is distinguished for his work on the galactic and extragalactic radio emissions. He demonstrated that the extragalactic nebulae were radio emitters and showed that Tycho Brahe's supernova was a radio source. His work includes detailed surveys of the galactic radio emissions and their interpretation in terms of galactic models. He originated a new type of interferometer capable of working over extended base lines and made the first measurements of the angular diameters of the radio sources. The principle of this interferometer was then applied to light. He demonstrated in a laboratory experiment that the photons in two coherent beams of light were correlated and subsequently developed a stellar interferometer with which he measured the diameter of Sirius. From 1936 until the end of the war the candidate was distinguished in the field of radar, particularly for his work on the original airborne systems.
ProposersA C B Lovell; P M S Blackett; H Spencer Jones; Robert Watson-Watt; R A Lyttelton; R v d R Woolley; D Gabor; J A Ratcliffe; R O Redman; Martin Ryle; F C Williams; Edward V Appleton; S Devons; M J Lighthill; J L Pawsey; J W S Pringle; H T Tizard
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Brown, Robert Hanbury: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA3273Hanbury Brown; Robert (1916 - 2002)1916 - 2002
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