Under the radar
Subtitle: the first woman in radio astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott
By: W.M. Goss, Richard X. McGee
Contributors: McGee, Richard X.; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Astrophysics and space science library -- 363
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783642031403; 9783642031410
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Women astronomers; Computer engineering; Radio astronomy; Astronomy; Physics; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.

Electronic mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott - 28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney, Australia); title: Ruby Payne-Scott: the early years: 1912-1938, ancestors, childhood, secondary school and Sydney University; title: Woodlands School, AWA, new career opportunities for women in World War II; title: Personnel file from CSIR/CSIRO; title: War time research by Payne-Scott at RPL; title: Payne-Scott - the first woman radio astronomer and the transition to peacetime - 1944-1945; title: Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945-1947: discovery of type I, II and III solar bursts and the introduction of Fourier synthesis in astronomy; title: Hornsby 1948: type III bursts revealed; conflicts with Bolton; title: Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949-1951: movies of the outward motions of solar outbursts with swept-lobe interferometer; title: Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952: her last experience as a radio astronomer; title: Reminiscences and anecdote of Ruby Payne-Scott as told by friends and colleagues; title: A remarkable family: Bill and Ruby Hall; title: Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, commonwealth investigation service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; title: Danebank School 1963-1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott lectures; title: The end of Payne-Scott's life; a retrospective; title: Epilogue: why did we write this book?