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The early technical development of the VLA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

George W. Swenson Jr.
George W. Swenson Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, 1406 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801

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In the spring of 1964, having qualified for a sabbattical leave from the University of Illinois and having recently completed two years as Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, I inquired of the NRAO staff as to whether a desk and possibly some augmentation of my University half-salary might be available at Green Bank for the following academic year. Instead I was invited to join the staff as a fulltime employee and to take a coordinating role in the development of the “very large array” as Chairman of the Design Committee. The University granted me a year’s leave of absence which eventually stretched to four years.

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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 131: Radio Interferometry: Theory, Techniques, and Applications , 1991 , pp. 160 - 164
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991