Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky (* 22. October 1905 in Norman, Oklahoma, † 14. February 1950 in talk bank, new jersey), was an US-American physicist and radio engineer, who discovered 1932 that the Milky Way emits radiation. This discovery meant the birth of radio astronomy.

Jansky studied Wisconsin until 1927 at the University OF. Starting from 1928 he worked to the Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, new jersey.

After months-long investigations he discovered 1931 that the source of unidentifizierter radio interference of stellar origin was. 1932 it could determine the direction as the constellation Sagittarius. In this constellation lay in opinion of Harlow Shapley and January Hendrik Oort the center of our Milky Way.

Jansky in honours the unit Jansky used in radio astronomy
<math> 1 Jansky = 1 Jy = 1 \ cdot 10^ {- 26} \ frac {W} {m^2Hz}< /math>
for the spectral achievement flow density imported.


 

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