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RefNoEC/1991/32
LevelItem
TitleSwarup, Govind: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date1986
DescriptionCitation typed
CitationProf. Govind Swarup was responsible for the construction of the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) of unique design, which has provided very large gathering power at relatively low cost. His proposal for a Giant Meter-wavelength Radio Telescope of collecting area 100,000 sq.m. has been funded for implementation. He has been responsible for competence in India for the design and fabrication of antennas of all types. His principal research contributions have covered: lunar occultations of weak extra-galactic radio sources using ORT; angular-size flux-density relation for these, along with angular size counts, to provide independent evidence against the Steady State Model; characteristics of jets, cores and hot spots of quasars; etc. He has developed a large body of young radio astronomers of very high quality.
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CodePersonNameDates
NA4819Swarup; Govind (1929 - 2020)1929 - 2020
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