Perth Observatory Summer Lecture - Advance notice
Perth Observatory has one of these every year and they're usually interesting (I volunteer up there in my spare time). This year though it's less about the actual astronomy and about one of the Astronomers. Which may prove interesting to some of my friends of the feminist persuasion.
Perth Observatory Summer Lecture 2011
An evening on the green with Professor Miller Goss
'UNDER THE RADAR'
Time: 8.00PM
When: 25th February, 2011
Where: Perth Observatory.
With Australia's radio astronomy focus firmly set on a future with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), it is interesting to look back to the origin of radio astronomy in Australia. Professor Miller Goss and Dr Richard McGee have written a fascinating book about the world's first female Radio Astronomer entitled:
"UNDER THE RADAR" - The Life and Times of Ruby Payne Scott, pioneer female radio astronomer.
Professor Miller Goss will present a talk on the life of eminent Australian Astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981) and will discuss, in an historical context, her role in the founding of modern radio astronomy.
During World War II, Payne-Scott played a major role in the design and implementation of the Australian military radars used in the defence of the Southwest Pacific by the allies from 1941 to 1945. On Australia Day 1946 she carried out the first ever radio interferometry observation at Dover Heights in Sydney. She continued these ground breaking activities until 1951. These achievements were made despite Payne-Scott's continued problems with the restrictive working conditions experienced by women scientists in Australia in the 1940s. Her conflicts with the CSIR and CSIRO hierarchy, concerning equal wages for women and other issues including the rights of married women were legendary. During the talk, Professor Miller Goss will attempt to provide insight into the role of the pioneering Australian woman and her remarkable family.
Professor Miller Goss is a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. He was the director of the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array from 1988 to 2002. From 1967 to 1977, he worked at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics in Sydney, using the Parkes radio telescope and the Fleurs Synthesis Telescope of the University of Sydney. He received the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science in 1976. From 1980 to 1986 he was a professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. At present, he and Claire Hooker of the University of Sydney are writing a biography of J.L. Pawsey and J.G. Bolton, two of the prominent pioneers of early Australian radio astronomy in the post World War II era. Goss is also working on a popular version of the Payne-Scott story which will be published by Springer in late 2011 or 2012.
Book now on 9293 8255 or send in the form (which will hopefully shortly be available on the observatory website) to secure your tickets to this event and hear this fascinating story. Places are limited!
Perth Observatory, 337 Walnut Road, Bickley, WA, 6076.
Tickets are $7.00 each.
Personally I look forward with interest to hearing about Ruby's experiences.
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Perth Observatory Summer Lecture 2011
An evening on the green with Professor Miller Goss
'UNDER THE RADAR'
Time: 8.00PM
When: 25th February, 2011
Where: Perth Observatory.
With Australia's radio astronomy focus firmly set on a future with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), it is interesting to look back to the origin of radio astronomy in Australia. Professor Miller Goss and Dr Richard McGee have written a fascinating book about the world's first female Radio Astronomer entitled:
"UNDER THE RADAR" - The Life and Times of Ruby Payne Scott, pioneer female radio astronomer.
Professor Miller Goss will present a talk on the life of eminent Australian Astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981) and will discuss, in an historical context, her role in the founding of modern radio astronomy.
During World War II, Payne-Scott played a major role in the design and implementation of the Australian military radars used in the defence of the Southwest Pacific by the allies from 1941 to 1945. On Australia Day 1946 she carried out the first ever radio interferometry observation at Dover Heights in Sydney. She continued these ground breaking activities until 1951. These achievements were made despite Payne-Scott's continued problems with the restrictive working conditions experienced by women scientists in Australia in the 1940s. Her conflicts with the CSIR and CSIRO hierarchy, concerning equal wages for women and other issues including the rights of married women were legendary. During the talk, Professor Miller Goss will attempt to provide insight into the role of the pioneering Australian woman and her remarkable family.
Professor Miller Goss is a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. He was the director of the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array from 1988 to 2002. From 1967 to 1977, he worked at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics in Sydney, using the Parkes radio telescope and the Fleurs Synthesis Telescope of the University of Sydney. He received the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science in 1976. From 1980 to 1986 he was a professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. At present, he and Claire Hooker of the University of Sydney are writing a biography of J.L. Pawsey and J.G. Bolton, two of the prominent pioneers of early Australian radio astronomy in the post World War II era. Goss is also working on a popular version of the Payne-Scott story which will be published by Springer in late 2011 or 2012.
Book now on 9293 8255 or send in the form (which will hopefully shortly be available on the observatory website) to secure your tickets to this event and hear this fascinating story. Places are limited!
Perth Observatory, 337 Walnut Road, Bickley, WA, 6076.
Tickets are $7.00 each.
Personally I look forward with interest to hearing about Ruby's experiences.
Originally posted at http://ariaflame.dreamwidth.org/62759.html where you may comment if you wish. There are currently
comments on the original post.