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Maxwell, a solar radio astronomer, founded the Harvard College Observatory’s Radio Astronomy Station and was co-discoverer of a new type of low-frequency solar radio burst. He was also a founding editor of the journal Astrophysical Letters.

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  • Alan Maxwell was born on October 21, 1926, in Auckland, New Zealand, into a prosperous merchant family

  • For his master’s thesis, “Enhanced Solar Radiation at 3-Metre Wavelengths,” he observed the radio emission from the Sun and attempted to correlate the radio bursts with sunspot activity. He adapted a war-surplus radar system with a dual five-element Yagi antenna, which he installed on the roof of a university building. He worked with his advisor, Kurt Kreielsheimer, in a department led by the distinguished physicist and radar pioneer, Percy Burbidge

  • Because of Fort Davis’s midcontinental location, in 1976, it became a critical node in the U.S Very Long Baseline Network (VLBN), the predecessor of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)

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Alan Maxwell died on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Alan Maxwell was born on October 21, 1926, in Auckland, New Zealand, into a prosperous merchant family. In 1950, Alan enrolled in the graduate program in physics at Manchester University, U.K., and immediately began helping Francis Graham-Smith, C.

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