Karl Guthe Jansky
Also known as Karl Jansky
American physicist and radio engineer
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- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 28,127x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,396x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,675x
- LIII. <i>On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space</i>
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Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
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