Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky
Born(1905-10-22)October 22, 1905
DiedFebruary 14, 1950(1950-02-14) (aged 44)
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin (BS)
Known forRadio astronomy
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Radio astronomy
InstitutionsBell Labs

Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.[1]

  1. ^ Singh, Simon (2005), Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, Harper Perennial, pp. 402–408, Bibcode:2004biba.book.....S, ISBN 978-0-00-716221-5, p. 406