Gordon J. Stanley (1 July 1921 – 17 December 2001) was a New Zealand-born

radio astronomer Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects using radio waves. It started in 1933, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories reported radiation coming from the Milky Way. Subsequent observations have identifie ...

who with John G. Bolton in 1947, discovered the first

radio star Stellar radio sources, radio source stars or radio stars are stellar objects that produce copious emissions of various radio frequency, radio frequencies, whether constant or pulsed. Radio emissions from stars can be produced in many varied ways. ...

Cygnus A Cygnus A ( 3C 405) is a radio galaxy, one of the strongest radio sources in the sky. Discovery and Identification A concentrated radio source in Cygnus was discovered by Grote Reber in 1939. In 1946 Stanley Hey and his colleague James Phillip ...

. Stanley was born in

Cambridge, New Zealand Cambridge () is a town in the Waipā District of the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. Situated southeast of Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, on the banks of the Waikato River, Cambridge is known as "The Town of Trees & Champi ...

. 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 The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

(Caltech) where he became the director of the

Owens Valley Radio Observatory Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (US) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada, approximately north of Los Angeles and southeast of Bishop. It was established in 19 ...

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"Gordon Stanley, 80; Built, Directed Radio Observatory at Caltech"
''LA Times'', 31 December 2001 *Ken Kellerman, et al. ''Gordon James Stanley and the early developments of Radio Astronomy in Australia''. *''World Book'', 1967 edition, Vol. 1, p. 803. New Zealand emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian astronomers Australian expatriates in the United States 1921 births 2001 deaths {{Australia-scientist-stub