Under the radar : the first woman in radio astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott - Goss, W. M. (William Miller); McGee, Richard X. (Berlin ; Springer, 2010)
Introduction: the life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott - 28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney, Australia) -- Ruby Payne-Scott: the early years: 1912-1938, ancestors, childhood, secondary school and Sydney University -- Woodlands School, AWA, new career opportunities for women in World War II -- Personnel file from CSIR/CSIRO -- War time research by Payne-Scott at RPL -- Payne-Scott - the first woman radio astronomer and the transition to peacetime - 1944-1945 -- Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945-1947: discovery of type I, II and III solar bursts and the introduction of Fourier synthesis in astronomy -- Hornsby 1948: type III bursts revealed; conflicts with Bolton -- Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949-1951: movies of the outward motions of solar outbursts with swept-lobe interferometer -- Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952: her last experience as a radio astronomer -- Reminiscences and anecdote of Ruby Payne-Scott as told by friends and colleagues -- A remarkable family: Bill and Ruby Hall -- Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, commonwealth investigation service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation -- Danebank School 1963-1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott lectures -- The end of Payne-Scott's life; a retrospective -- Epilogue: why did we write this book?
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.
Keywords: Payne-Scott, Ruby; Women astronomers -- Biography; Radio astronomy -- History