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Campbell Wade came to Australia in December 1957 after
completing his PhD at Harvard, on a Research
Fellowship with Radiophysics that Joe Pawsey and Bark Bok were
influential in setting up. During his fellowship, he conducted
observations at Potts Hill with Jim Hindman using the 11-m Transit
Telescope. They examined some sources at 1400 MHz and published
results on the Eta Carina Nebula and Centaurus A in the Australian
Journal of Physics. On completion of his fellowship, he returned
to the US and took up a position with NRAO and now having retired
he lives in Alburquerque, New Mexico in the US. After
an absence of 60 years, he returned to Potts Hill to
visit the site and see the restored receiver hut in which he worked.
The image shows Campbell pointing out the wheel he had to crank on the
11-m telescope to change the declination!
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