Abstract :
A 3-day conference on radio astronomy, jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the California Institute of Technology, was held in Washington, D. C., at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, January 4–6, 1954. The conference was called for the purpose of discussing the current status of research in this country and abroad, the nature of the problems facing radio astronomers, and profitable directions for future work in the relatively new field of radio astronomy. Investigations of invisible radiations in the radio range coming from the sky became an especially promising new method of attacking astronomical problems after ultrasensitive short-wave receivers were developed during World War II.
