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31Venus — /vee neuhs/, n., pl. Venuses for 2. 1. an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty. 2. an exceptionally beautiful woman. 3. (sometimes l.c.) Archaeol. a statuette of… …
32Steven J. Ostro — is an American scientist specializing in radar astronomy. He works at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ostro has led radar observations of numerous asteroids, as well as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn s rings, and Mars and its… …
33Gordon Pettengill — (born 1926) is a noted American radio astronomer and planetary physicist. Early life and education Pettengill was born in Providence, Rhode Island. As a young man he was enthralled with radio and electronics, taking apart and building old radios …
34Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev — ( ru. Александр Леонидович Зайцев; b. May 19, 1945) is a Russian and Soviet radio engineer and astronomer from Fryazino. [ Picture of Alexander Zaitsev during the ERAC Conference at the Starkenburg Observatory in Heppenheim, .Zaitsev is the chief …
35Radarastronomie — Die Radarastronomie ist ein Verfahren zur Untersuchung der physikalischen Eigenschaften und bildlichen Darstellung von Himmelskörpern unseres Sonnensystems. Bei dieser Technik werden Mikrowellen von einem großen Radioteleskop oder einem anderen… …
36List of radiation topics — *absorbed dose *equivalent dose *hormesis *Louis Harold Gray (British physicist) *rad (unit) *radar *radar astronomy *radar cross section *radar detector *radar gun *radar jamming *(radar reflector) corner reflector *radar warning receiver… …
37spectroscopy — spectroscopist /spek tros keuh pist/, n. /spek tros keuh pee, spek treuh skoh pee/, n. the science that deals with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis. [1865 70; SPECTRO + SCOPY] * * * Branch of analysis devoted to identifying… …
38Ryle, Sir Martin — born Sept. 27, 1918, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. died Oct. 14, 1984, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British radio astronomer. After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oxford, he helped design radar equipment during World War II. He was an… …
39John H. DeWitt, Jr. — John H. DeWitt, Jr. (February 20, 1906 – January 25, 1999) was an American pioneer in radio broadcasting, radar astronomy and photometry. He observed the first successful reception of radio echoes off the moon on January 10, 1946 as part of… …
40Vladimir Kotelnikov — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov (Russian Владимир Александрович Котельников , scientific transliteration Vladimir Alexandrovič Kotelnikov , September 6 1908 in Kazan – February 11 2005 in Moscow) was an information theory and radar astronomy… …
