Daily Image
12-10-2010
A Grandparent of the EVN is Honoured
| Submitter: | Tony Willis, Andrew Gray and Olwen Gendall |
| Description: | This seems to be a season for anniversaries. On October 22 ASTRON will be hosting a mini-symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the WSRT. Recently, at an open house on September 25, the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) celebrated its 50th anniversary. As part of these celebrations DRAO received an IEEE Milestone Award for participation of the DRAO 26 metre telescope in the first-ever VLBI experiment done in April 1967. In that sense the 26m telescope and its partner in the experiment, a 46m telescope near Ottawa, Ontario, may be considered the grandparents of the numerous VLBI networks (including the EVN) that now exist around the globe. At the DRAO open house, a plaque was unveiled by the President of the National Research Council of Canada and the President of IEEE Canada, celebrating the first VLBI run. John Galt, the ex-director of DRAO and a member of the original Canadian VLBI team was present and helped cut the observatory's 50th birthday cake. IEEE milestone awards (see http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones ) are not given out lightly. Previous recipients include James Clerk Maxwell (posthumously, one assumes!) for electromagnetic theory as well as NV Philips for the development of the compact disk. The sequence of four images shown here depicts firstly the 26 m telescope on the day of the open house, John Galt, a member of the original VLBI team, cutting the DRAO 50th anniversary cake, and, since Canada is an officially bilingual country, the English and French IEEE plaques which were unveiled as part of the IEEE Milestone Award ceremony. |
| Copyright: | DRAO |
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