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Gordon J. Stanley

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Gordon J. Stanley (1 July 1921 – 17 December 2001^[1]) was a New Zealand-born radio astronomer who with John G. Bolton in 1947, discovered the first radio star, Cygnus A.^[2]^[3]

Stanley was born in Cambridge, New Zealand. By the 1940s he was working in radio astronomy with Bolton, where they discovered the first radio star.

In 1955 Stanley went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he became the director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.

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^ ^a ^b "Vale Gordon Stanley". www.atnf.csiro.au. New South Wales, Australia: Australia Telescope National Facility. 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Chang, Kenneth (21 January 2002). "Gordon J. Stanley, 80; Pinpointed Radio Waves From Space". The New York Times. New York, U.S. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Ken Kellerman, et al. Gordon James Stanley and the early developments of Radio Astronomy in Australia. doi:10.1071/AS04008

^ World Book, 1967 edition, Vol. 1, p. 803.