Born Sept. 27, 1918, and educated at Bradfield College and Oxford University in the U.K., Martin Ryle would go on to be the first astronomer royal (1972-1982) with a background in radio astronomy.

Sir Francis Graham-Smith in 2007: he carried out much important work on pulsars - Science Photo Library Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of ...

That year's prize was shared between two men, Hewish and Martin Ryle. Bell Burnell's decisive contribution was internationally acknowledged but ignored by the Nobel Committee. Both Bell Burnell and ...

An individual radio antenna has an angular field of view on the sky– informally known as ‘the beam’ – which can result in a very poor angular resolution at long wavelengths. Only the combined effect ...