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.

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.
• 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.