radio astronomern.
/ˌreɪdɪəʊ əˈstrɒnəmə/, U.S. /ˌreɪdioʊ əˈstrɑnəmər/ Astronomy.
A person engaged in radio astronomy.
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radio astronomer1949
1949 Sci. Monthly May 304/1 Apparently, the radio astronomers have observed something that cannot be seen with the ordinary telescope.
1952 Life 17 Nov. 130/3 Radioastronomers found that the fiery sphere man sees is surrounded by six even hotter gaseous envelopes which bombard the earth with radio and radar waves.
1968 Times 26 Oct. 4/4 A new pulsar has been discovered by radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank.
1976 Time 27 Dec. 37/2 Radioastronomers..have beamed coded signals toward the stars to let any other civilization know that intelligent life exists on earth.
1996 M. D. Russell Sparrow xii. 102 Virtually all radio astronomers dropped whatever they were doing and aimed telescopes at Alpha Centauri.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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