Gordon J. Stanley
Gordon J. Stanley was a New Zealand-born radio astronomer who with John G. Bolton in 1947, discovered the first radio star, Cygnus A.
Stanley was born in Cambridge, New Zealand. By the 1940s he was working in radio astronomy with Bolton, where they discovered the first radio star.
In 1955 Stanley went to the California Institute of Technology where he became the director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
