The Early Post-War History of Soviet Radio Astronomy

Sullivan W. T. III , The federal patron and postwar radio astronomy: A case where big bucks and the latest technology failed in the USA’, paper presented at the meeting ‘Science and the federal patron’, held in Washington, DC, in September 1989; forthcoming in proceedings of this meeting (ed. by Reingold N. Van Keuren D. ).

Braude S. Ya. (eds), Studies in the history of radio astronomy in the USSR (Kiev, 1985) (in Russian); Salomonovich A.E. (ed.), Development of radio astronomy in the USSR (Moscow, 1988) (in Russian.); Salomonovich A. E. , ‘The first steps of the Soviet radio astronomy’, in Sullivan W.T. III (ed.), The early years of radio astronomy (Cambridge, 1984); Shklovskii I. S. , From the history of the development of radio astronomy in the USSR (Moscow, 1982) (in Russian); Shklovskii I. S. , Five billion vodka bottles to the Moon (New York and London, 1991); Ginzburg V. L. , ‘Remarks on my work on radio astronomy’, in Sullivan W. T. III (ed.), The early years of radio astronomy (Cambridge, 1984).

Sullivan , op. cit. (ref. 1); Sullivan , A history of radio astronomy , forthcoming.

Kaidanovskii N. L. Salomonovich A. E. , ‘Radio astronomical investigations in the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences: The first steps’, Preprint FIAN #199, Moscow, 1981 (in Russian).

Sullivan , op. cit. (ref. 1).

Sullivan W. T. III , Private communication, 27 Jan. 1995.

Ginzburg V. L. , ‘Ob izluchenii solntsa v oblasti radiochastot’, Soviet academy doklady , lii (1946), 491–4.

Shklovskii I. S. , ‘Sovremennoe sostojanie voprosa o prirode solnechnoi korony’, Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk , xc (1946), 63.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 8.

Martyn D. F. , ‘Temperature radiation from the quiet Sun in the radio spectrum’, Nature , clviii (1946), 632–3.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 11.

Papaleksi N. D. , ‘Sovremennoje radio i nauka’, Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk , xxxi (1947), 297.

Kaidanovskii N. L. , Private communication, 27 December 1993.

Kaidanovskii op. cit. (ref. 4), 11.

Kaidanovskii , op. cit. (ref. 13).

Kaidanovskii op. cit. (ref. 4), 16–17.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 10.

Kaidanovskii , op. cit. (ref. 4), 28.

Vitkevich V. V. , ‘Novyi metod issledovanijc solnechnoi korony’, Soviet Academy doclady , lxxvii (1951), 585; MacHin K. E. Smith F. G. , ‘A new radio method for measuring the electron density in the solar corona’, Nature , clxviii (1951), 599.

Vitkevich V. V. Chikhachev B. M. , ‘Nablyudenija radioizluchenija Solnta na volnakh metrovogo diapazona vo vremja polnogo solnechnogo zatmenija 25 fevralja 1951 g.’, in Trudy 5-go Sovestchanija po Voprosam Kosmogonii. Radioastronomija (Proceedings of the 5th conference on cosmogony. Radio astronomy) (USSR Academy of Science, Moscow, 1956), 174; Vitkevich V. V. , ‘Resultaty nabludenii rasprostranenija radiovoln cherez solnechnuju koronu’, Astronomicheskii zhurnal (Soviet astronomical journal), xxxii (1955), 150–64.

Kaidanovskii N. L. Kardashev N. S. Shklovskii I. S. , ‘Resultaty nablyudenii diskretnykh istochnikov kosmicheskogo radioizluchenija na volne λ = 3.2cm’, Soviet Academy doclady , civ (1955), 517–19.

Kaidanovskii , op. cit. (ref. 4), 33–34.

Shmaonov T. A. , ‘Metodika absoljutnykh izmerenii effektivnoi temperatury radioizluchenija s nizkoi ekvivalentnoi temperaturoi’ (‘A method of absolute measurement of the effective temperature of radio sources with low equivalent temperature’), Pribory i technika eksperimenta (Moscow, 1957), NI, 83–86.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982); Ginzburg , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1984).

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 15.

Shklovskii , ibid. 12.

Shklovskii , ibid. 13; Shklovskii I.S. , Radioastronomia [a popular essay] (Moscow, 1953; in Russian); Kosmicheskoe radioisluchenie (Moscow, 1956) [English translation: Cosmic radio waves (Cambridge, Mass., 1960)].

Sanamian V. A. , ‘Radioastronomija v Bjurakanskoi Astroflzicheskoi Observatorii, Institute Radiofisiki i Elektroniki AN Arm. SSR i drugikh organizatsijakh Armenii’ (‘Radioastronomy in the Bjurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and in other institutions of Armenia’), in Braude S. Ya. (eds), Studies in the history of radio astronomy in the USSR (Kiev, 1985), 183–96.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 16.

Shklovskii , ibid 15.

Sullivan , op. cit. (ref. 1).

Shklovskii , op cit. (ref. 1), 16–20.

Shklovskii I. S. , ‘Monokhromaticheskoje radioizluchenije galaktiki i vozmozhnosti ego nabljudenija’, Astronomicheskii zhurnal (Soviet astronomical journal), xxvi (1949), 10–14.

Shklovskii , op. cit. (ref. 2, 1982), 20.

Hey J. S. , The evolution of radio astronomy (Canton, N.Y., 1973), 87, 93–94.

References in Hey , op. cit. (ref. 35). These are not all the publications by Soviets but only those noticed in the West by one person. I have augmented Hey's list with only one paper, that of Shklovskii in 1946, op. cit. (ref. 8), which should have been in the Hey list. The analogous paper is Ginzburg's of 1946, op. cit. (ref. 7). Of all the world's authors on radio astronomy cited by Hey for this period, only he himself surpasses Shklovskii in the number of publications, with six references.