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Warwick helped establish the field of low frequency radio astronomy. He was principal investigator for NASAâs Voyager I and II Planetary Radio Astronomy instruments, that measured the radio emission from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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Jim Warwick died on Thursday, June 20, 2013 in Fresno, California
James Walter (Jim) Warwick was one of the pioneers of low frequency radio astronomy. He was born in Toledo, Ohio on May 22, 1924 and died on June 20, 2013 in Fresno, California
After graduation from high school as class valedictorian he served in the U.S Army Air Corp as a B29 radar bombardier in the South Pacific
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Jim spent time at the Harvard College Observatory’s Sacramento Peak Station in New Mexico, and at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, primarily working on radio and optical investigations of solar flares. Vol 54, Issue 1 (Obituaries, News & Commentaries, Community Reports) Jim Warwick died on Thursday, June 20, 2013 in Fresno, California.
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