The 59th Karl Jansky Lecture: Discovering the Radio Universe

K. I. Kellermann

The 59th Karl Jansky Lecture: Discovering the Radio Universe

History and Philosophy of Physics 2025-11-24 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors: K. I. Kellermann

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Abstract

The NRAO 59th Karl Jansky Lecture was presented on 24 October 2024, 22 November 2024, and 4 December 2024 in Charlottesville, Virginia, Socorro, New Mexico, and Green Bank, West Virginia, respectively. The lecture covered the circumstances of the author's start in radio astronomy, the demographics of radio astronomers, discussions of the outstanding, mostly serendipitous, discoveries made by radio astronomers over the past century, and concluded with reflections on the prospects for further new discoveries.

Keywords

radio astronomy Karl Jansky Lecture astronomical discoveries NRAO space exploration

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@article{arxiv.2511.16779,
  title  = {The 59th Karl Jansky Lecture: Discovering the Radio Universe},
  author = {K. I. Kellermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16779},
  year   = {2025}
}