Jerry R. Ehman

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Jerry R. Ehman is an American astronomer. He is the first scientist to detect the strong narrowband radio signal known as Wow! signal on August 15, 1977 while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University.

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Ehman has a Ph.D. degree in astronomy from the University of Michigan where he specialized in radio astronomy. He taught electrical engineering at the Ohio State University while working on the Big Ear project.^[1]

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• The Big Ear Wow! Signal - What We Know and Don't Know About It After 20 Years
• Explanation of the code "6EQUJ5" on the Wow! computer printout

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