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My collaborations with V. Radhakrishram and B. G. Clark were especially fruitful.
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Clark
Collaborations
Fruitful
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Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
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Following
Physics
Rice
Thesis
Topic
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My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
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Civil War
Farms
Settled
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I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.
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Department
Laboratory
Bell
Joined
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I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.
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Continuing
Jogging
Family Work Day
Evenings
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A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.
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Atmosphere
Components
Including
Pointing
Radiation
Radio
Sky
Ground
Receives
Sources
Telescope
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A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.
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Band
Input
Intensity
Measuring
Output
Radiation
Select
Consists
Desired
Detector
Filter
Followed
Microwave
Produces
Proportional
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An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.
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Antenna
Collecting
Radiation
Receiver
Response
Designed
Directions
Incident
Maximize
Minimize
Normally
Pointed
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During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.
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Automobile
Electronics
Fields
Operations
Saturday
Shops
Carried
Mornings
Shop
Trips
Visit
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Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.
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Aids
Astronomy
Cosmic
Dynamics
Features
Most Powerful
Radiation
Structure
Added
Billion
Determining
Explosion
Greatly
Microwave
Relic
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I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.
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Aunt
Figure Skating
Houston
Ice
Lessons
Marching Band
Public School
Trombone
Visiting
Winter
Activities
Remember School High School
Attended
Enjoying
Farm
Marching
Piano Lessons
Uncle
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My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.
Robert Woodrow Wilson /
Science
Courses
Elation
Enjoyed
High School
Magnet
Math
Math And Science
Physics
Rice
Senior
Thesis
University
Admitted
Barely
Career
Except
Graduated
Honors
However
Regulator
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