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Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown is one of Fabrice's (scientific) personal hero. He is mainly known for the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, which is still a cornerstone of quantum optics, after being its starting point.

A full list of his bibliography is compiled here (by the Royal Society Publishing Organisation [1]).

He wrote several books of a strong personal character, some technical, such as Boffin and The Intensity Interferometer, others religious and/or spiritual, such as There are no dinosaurs in the bible (his grandfather, also called Robert Hanbury Brown, but a Sir, wrote The Land of Goshen and the Exodus), still others universal, such as Man and the Stars.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-220822766/listen Interview of Hanbury Brown, where you can hear his voice.
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~lebohec/SIIWGWS/Slides/Davis_Workshop.pdf Interesting presentation from a coworker of HB.
Early Australian Radio-Astronomy project, with plenty of original material on HB.
Intensity Interferometry with Cherenkov telescopes by Michael Daniel.
First Observation of Photon Correlations (Bunching) with Beamsplitter and Photomultipliers (Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Quintin Twiss). S. G. Lukishova and W. J. Tango in Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications, Springer Series in Optical Science 217:605] (2019). Chapter 19 of Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications by Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova and Victor N. Zadkov (editors) [chapter by Lukishova & Tango, the latter a Twiss student].
Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002). B. Lovell and R. M. May in Nature 416:34 (2002). Obituary.

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 = Robert Hanbury Brown =
-'''''Robert Hanbury Brown''''' is one of [[Fabrice]]'s (scientific) personal hero. He is mainly known for the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, that is a cornerstone of quantum optics.
+<center><wz tip="A rare picture of Hanbury Brown (right) & Twiss (left) together. One can see where the stamina, leadership and brilliance comes from.">[[File:HBT.jpg|450px]]</wz></center>
-His main papers on this topic with Twiss are (note that the opening one is ''not'' with Twiss):
+'''''Robert Hanbury Brown''''' is one of [[Fabrice]]'s (scientific) personal hero. He is mainly known for the [[Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect]], which is still a cornerstone of quantum optics, after being its starting point.
-# R. Hanbury Brown, R. C. Jennison, and M. K. Das Gupta. Apparent angular sizes of discrete radio sources: Observations at jodrell bank, manchester. Nature, 170:1061, 1952. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/1701061a0]
+A full list of his bibliography is [[:File:rsbm20030005.doc|compiled here]] (by the Royal Society Publishing Organisation [http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/49/83/suppl/DC1]).
-# R. Hanbury Brown and R. Q. Twiss. Correlation between photons in two coherent beams of light. Nature, 177:27, 1956. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/177027a0]
-# R. Hanbury Brown and R. Q. Twiss. The question of correlation between photons in coherent light rays. Nature, 178:1447, 1956. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/1781447a0]
-# R. Hanbury Brown and R. Q. Twiss. A test of a new type of stellar interferometer on Sirius. Nature, 178:1046, 1956. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/1781046a0]
-# R. Hanbury Brown and R.Q. Twiss. A new type of interferometer for use in radio astronomy. Phil. Mag., 45:663, 1954. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786440708520475]
-He also has a four-part series with Twiss, which [[I]] have not studied yet:
+He wrote several books of a strong personal character, some technical, such as [[Boffin]]  and  [[The Intensity Interferometer]], others religious and/or spiritual, such as [[There are no dinosaurs in the bible]] (his grandfather, also called Robert Hanbury Brown, but a Sir, wrote [[The Land of Goshen and the Exodus]]), still others universal, such as [[Man and the Stars]].
-# Hanbury Brown, R. and Twiss, R.Q., Interferometry of the intensity  fluctuations in light I. Basic theory: the correlation between photons in coherent beams of radiation, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A, 242, 300-324, 1957.
-# Hanbury Brown, R. and Twiss, R.Q., Interferometry of the intensity  fluctuations in light II. An experimental test of the theory for partially coherent light, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A, 243, 291-319, 1957.
-# Hanbury Brown, R. and Twiss, R.Q., Interferometry of the intensity  fluctuations in light III. Applications to astronomy, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A, 248, 199-221, 1958.
-# Hanbury Brown, R. and Twiss, R.Q., Interferometry of the intensity  fluctuations in light IV. A test of an intensity interferometer on Sirius A, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A, 248, 222-237, 1958.
-A full list of his bibliography is [[:File:rsbm20030005.doc|compiled here]] (by the Royal Society Publishing Organisation [http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/49/83/suppl/DC1]).
-== Links ==
+== Further reading ==
+* http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-220822766/listen Interview of Hanbury Brown, where you can hear his voice.
 * http://www.physics.utah.edu/~lebohec/SIIWGWS/Slides/Davis_Workshop.pdf Interesting presentation from a coworker of HB.
+* [https://www.researchgate.net/project/Early-Australian-Radio-Astronomy Early Australian Radio-Astronomy] project, with plenty of original material on HB.
+* [https://indico.cta-observatory.org/event/1946/contributions/19909/attachments/15396/19566/CTA_Symposium_IntensityInterferometry.pdf Intensity Interferometry with Cherenkov telescopes] by Michael Daniel.
+* {{lukishova19a}} Chapter 19 of [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98402-5 Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications] by Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova and Victor N. Zadkov (editors) [chapter by Lukishova & Tango, the latter a Twiss student].
+* {{lovell02a}} Obituary.