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3C 273: The Hazards of Publication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Raymond F. Haynes
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping NSW 2121
Roslynn D. Haynes
Affiliation:
School of English, University of New South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington NSW 2033

Abstract

In March 1963 a paper by Hazard, Mackey and Shimmins in Nature, announced an accurate position for the radio source 3C 273. This was subsequently identified as the first known quasar. Through an innocent editorial mistake, the affiliation of the first author was wrongly attributed. This caused long-term animosity between the Physics Department of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics.

Type
History of Australian Astronomy
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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References

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