Program #4159 of the earth sky radio series

He then obtained a grant from East Sussex and in 1935 joined the postgraduate department at the City & Guilds, Imperial College. At the age of 19 he graduated BSc with first class honours taking advanced Electrical Engineering and Telegraphy and Telephony. For these reasons Hanbury decided to take an engineering course at Brighton Technical College studying for an external degree in the University of London. His decision was accelerated by the fact that after the divorce of his parents his mother had re-married Jack Lloyd, a wealthy stockbroker, who in 1932 vanished with all his money and thus Hanbury felt he should seek a career that would lead to his financial independence. Hanbury's interests turned to science and technology particularly electrical engineering and after two years he decided that he would seek more appropriate education in a technical college. In 1930 he entered Tonbridge School as a Judde scholar in classics. From the age of three Hanbury was educated in England, initially at a School in Bexhill and then from the age of eight to fourteen at the Cottesmore Preparatory School in Hove, Sussex. Basil Hanbury Brown, and of Joyce Blaker. Robert Hanbury Brown was born on 31 August 1916 in Aruvankadu, Nilgiri Hills, South India son of an Officer in the Indian Army, Col. Postscript on the choice on interferometric technique.A successor to the Narrabri stellar intensity interferometer.The Narrabri stellar intensity interferometer.Measurement of the angular diameter of Sirius.The development of the phase-correlation interferometer.Written by John Davis and Sir Bernard Lovell, FRS.

Program #4159 of the earth sky radio series