Interstate 80 eastbound, twenty miles outside of Sacramento. It’s Tuesday, November 20, 1984; a day on which a small part of history will be created. In a folder next to me on the front seat of my ...
John Rummel is a Senior Scientist with the SETI Institute. He retired as a Professor of Biology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and formerly was a Visiting Scholar at McGill ...
Dr. Pollak received his D.Phil in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford in 2018 after which he spent another year at Oxford commissioning the Goonhilly-3 radio telescope receiver system. In 2019, ...
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...
A parabolic antenna brings radio waves from a particular direction in space (along the axis of the parabola) to a focus as in Figure 1. The radio waves from the direction along the axis arrive at the ...
The SETI Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)3 California Non-Profit Corporation on November 20, 1984. The inaugural officers of the Institute were CEO Thomas Pierson and SETI scientist Jill Tarter.
Dr. Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics. After building a cyclotron, a small particle accelerator, as an undergraduate at Knox College, Jeff matriculated at Cornell ...