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THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY: INTERSELLAR MOLECULES AND ASTROCHEMISTRY IAU 2015 Jack Welch, University of California Berkeley
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The 10 Foot Dish on the Roof of Cory Hall at UC Berkeley S. Silver, D.D. Thornton, W.J. Welch
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First High Frequency Measurement of Jovian Brightness From G. Kuiper’s model, we found: D.D. Thornton, W.J. Welch Icarus 2, 228 (1963)
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1967 The Long Awaited 6m Whitaker Antenna
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NH 3 in Jupiter - Why not NH 3 in the ISM? “Take the wisdom of your colleagues with a grain of salt.”
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Detection of Polyatomic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium NH 3 SGR B2 SGR A H2OH2O SGR B2 Orion W49 Nature 221, 626 (1969) Cheung, Rank, Townes, Thornton, Welch PhysRevLett 21, 1701 (1968)
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Molecules are Abundant in the ISM 16 OH 18 OH 14 NH 3 H 2 12 C 16 O H 2 13 C 16 O Xogen H 12 C 14 N H 13 C 14 N Rank, Townes, Welch, Science 174, 1083 (1971) 12 C 16 O 13 C 16 O 12 CH 3 16 OH HI
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Location of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy Rank, Townes, Welch Science 174, 1083 (1971)
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Interferometry Is Essential to Understand the Small Scale Structure of Water Vapor Sources R. Hills, M.A. Janssen, D.D. Thornton, W.J. Welch, ApJ,175, L59 (1972) H 2 O OH
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Interferometry and Spectral Data of Venus M. A. Janssen, R.E. Hills, D.D. Thornton, W.J. Welch, Science,179,994 (1973)
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Astrochemistry Today Tom Millar – TIARA Astrobiology Workshop, June 2015
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184 Molecules – June 2015 Tom Millar – TIARA Astrobiology Workshop, June 2015
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