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]).

Two books of a personal character are of special interest: Boffin and There are no dinosaurs in the bible.

Links

• 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].