BIG EAR TWO is a personal, behind-the-scenes account of astronomers, engineers and inventors and of their efforts to probe the cosmos in an attempt to answer the question "Are we alone?". "A book about a pioneer engaged in a great adventure", foreword to Japanese translation. "Truly inspirational and a wonderful life's adventure story", Amateur Radio Astronomy Journal. "Will be enjoyed by a reader of any age", Physics Today.
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The author, John Kraus, is McDougal Professor of Electrical Engineering and Astronomy, Emeritus, The Ohio State University. He is the designer and builder of the Ohio State University's radio telescope, Big Ear. He is author of Radio Astronomy and Our Cosmic Universe and, with co-authors, of Electromagnetics, 5th edition, and Antennas, 3rd edition.
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Radio, RADAR, and the search for E.T. John Kraus has done it,
By Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC (glendale, AZ USA www.smecc.org) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Big Ear Two: Listening for Other-Worlds (Paperback)
John Kraus, a radio amateur, physicist, inventor of antennas publisher of many books in the field of physics and electronics and builder of radio telescopes shares with us his exciting life and the progress of science and engineering in his book BIG EAR TWO.Exciting chapters in this book will carry you from a young man's early experiences in radio and electronics, though developing electronic countermeasures during World War Two, on to Building BIG EAR, a radio telescope at the Ohio State University. We heartily recommend this book to the engineer, astronomer, physicist, radio amateur, student of the history of science and technology as well as anyone with a general curiosity science. Well written and entertaining, "BIG EAR TWO" is a major revision to the earlier work, "BIG EAR," that was published in 1976. Ed Sharpe, Archivist -for Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation Glendale Arizona - couryhouse@aol.com
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Radio, RADAR, and the search for E.T. John Kraus has done it,
By Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC (glendale, AZ USA www.smecc.org) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Big Ear Two: Listening for Other-Worlds (Paperback)
John Kraus, a radio amateur, physicist, inventor of antennas publisher of many books in the field of physics and electronics and builder of radio telescopes shares with us his exciting life and the progress of science and engineering in his book BIG EAR TWO.Exciting chapters in this book will carry you from a young man's early experiences in radio and electronics, though developing electronic countermeasures during World War Two, on to Building BIG EAR, a radio telescope at the Ohio State University. We heartily recommend this book to the engineer, astronomer, physicist, radio amateur, student of the history of science and technology as well as anyone with a general curiosity science. Well written and entertaining, "BIG EAR TWO" is a major revision to the earlier work, "BIG EAR," that was published in 1976. Ed Sharpe, Archivist -for Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation Glendale Arizona
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Radio, RADAR, and the search for E.T. John Kraus has done it,
By Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC (glendale, AZ USA www.smecc.org) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Big Ear Two: Listening for Other-Worlds (Paperback)
John Kraus, a radio amateur, physicist, inventor of antennas publisher of many books in the field of physics and electronics and builder of radio telescopes shares with us his exciting life and the progress of science and engineering in his book BIG EAR TWO.Exciting chapters in this book will carry you from a young man's early experiences in radio and electronics, though developing electronic countermeasures during World War Two, on to Building BIG EAR, a radio telescope at the Ohio State University. We heartily recommend this book to the engineer, astronomer, physicist, radio amateur, student of the history of science and technology as well as anyone with a general curiosity science. Well written and entertaining, "BIG EAR TWO" is a major revision to the earlier work, "BIG EAR," that was published in 1976. Ed Sharpe, Archivist -for Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation Glendale Arizona - couryhouse@aol.com
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