No More Radio Stars! 1952

Abstract

AbstractThe year 1952 was an important turning point for radio astronomers; during the year it became clear that none of the discrete radio sources were “radio stars” and that the first identifications of radio sources with galaxies and supernovae remnants were typical for the population. The year also produced one of the few fully collaborative efforts: a Christmas special appeared in Nature on 22 December 1952, “Apparent Angular Sizes of Discrete Radio Sources” (p. 1061) as papers by the Jodrell Bank team of Hanbury Brown, Jennison and Das Gupta, Mills (1952a) in Sydney and Smith (1952a, 1952c) in Cambridge were published.