Bernard F. Burke

Roadside historic marker along River Road near the former Seneca Observatory that details a co-discovery of Bernard Flood Burke's.

Bernard Flood Burke (born 7 June 1928) is an American astronomer who received the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 1963. He received his education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He and Kenneth Franklin discovered Jupiter as a source of radio waves while working at the Carnegie Institution for Science.[2] He served as AAS President from 1986 to 1988.[3]

References

  1. ↑ National Radio Astronomy Observatory Archive
  2. ↑ Radio Jove of NASA
  3. ↑ Past Officers and Councilors from American Astronomical Society site


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