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The relevant history of discovery in radio astronomy is summarized in Salter and Brown, chapter 1 of Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy, 2nd edition, ed. G.L. Verschuur and K.I. Kellermann, Springer, 1988.
Michael W. Friedlander, A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space, Harvard 2000 (rev. ed.).
Jay Holberg, unpublished manuscript on Sirius and white dwarfs.
Synchrotron radiation lab background: http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/about/history/
Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s account of the discovery of pulsars is given in “Petit Four”, Eighth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 302, 685–689, Dec. 1977, and reproduced in http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm. This includes her comments on students and supervisors.
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(2006). Relativistic Matter. In: The Sky at Einstein’s Feet. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-37622-4_3
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