Grote Reber and the Power of Amateurs
Grote Reber, c. 1937 (image from Reber, Grote. "A Play Entitled the Beginning of Radio Astronomy." The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1988, 82(3), 93 via NRAO)
Grote Reber's first radio telescope in Wheaton, IL, c. 1937 (NRAO/AUI)
Grote Reber (NRAO/AUI)
Grote Reber with his donated Wheaton antenna at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV, on October 16, 1958 (NRAO/AUI)