Karl Guthe Jansky
Physicist

Karl Guthe Jansky Net Worth

Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer born on October 22, 1905 in Oklahoma. He is renowned for his revolutionary discovery of radio waves in August 1931, which he later determined were coming from the Milky Way. His pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy has earned him the title of one of the founding fathers of radio astronomy.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day October 22, 1905
Birth Place Oklahoma
Age 115 YEARS OLD
Died On Feb 14, 1950 (age 44)
Birth Sign Libra

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

About

American Physicist and radio Engineer who, in August 1931, discovered radio waves, which he later determined were emanating from the Milky Way. Because of his revolutionary work he is often referred to as one of the founding fathers of radio astronomy.

Before Fame

After college he went to work at Bell Labs, charged with figuring out a way to minimize the static interference that clogged up voice radio transmissions.

Trivia

In tracing the sources of static, he found two of them came from thunderstorms, but a third one was apparently originating from the constellation Sagittarius.

Family Life

He was born in what was then the Oklahoma Territory and his father Cyril M. Jansky the dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering.

Associated With

James Van Allen was another prominent Astronomer, who helped discover the radiation belts encircling the earth, which came to be named after him.

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