Stanley Hey | |
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 Hey, photographed in 1964 Copyright: QinetQ Limited | |
| Born | James Stanley Hey 3 May 1909 Nelson, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 27 February 2000 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
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| Spouse | Edna Heywood |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, physics |
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James Stanley Hey FRAS FRS MBE[1] (3 May 1909 – 27 February 2000) was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he laid the basis for the development of radio astronomy. While working in Richmond Park during the Second World War, Hey discovered that the Sun radiates radio waves and localised for the first time an extragalactic radio source in the constellation Cygnus.
- ^ Hewish, Anthony (1 December 2002). "James Stanley Hey, M.B.E. 3 May 1909 – 27 February 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 167–178. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0010. S2CID 71342998. Retrieved 30 October 2021.