Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown is one of Fabrice's (scientific) personal hero. He is mainly known for the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, which is still a cornerstone of quantum optics, after being its starting point.

A full list of his bibliography is compiled here (by the Royal Society Publishing Organisation [1]).

He wrote several books of a strong personal character, some technical, such as Boffin and The Intensity Interferometer, others religious and/or spiritual, such as There are no dinosaurs in the bible (his grandfather, also called Robert Hanbury Brown, but a Sir, wrote The Land of Goshen and the Exodus), still others universal, such as Man and the Stars.

Further reading

• http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-220822766/listen Interview of Hanbury Brown, where you can hear his voice.
• http://www.physics.utah.edu/~lebohec/SIIWGWS/Slides/Davis_Workshop.pdf Interesting presentation from a coworker of HB.
• Early Australian Radio-Astronomy project, with plenty of original material on HB.
• Intensity Interferometry with Cherenkov telescopes by Michael Daniel.
• 🕮First Observation of Photon Correlations (Bunching) with Beamsplitter and Photomultipliers (Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Quintin Twiss), chapter "19". S. G. Lukishova and W. J. Tango. Springer, 2019. Chapter 19 of Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications by Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova and Victor N. Zadkov (editors) [chapter by Lukishova & Tango, the latter a Twiss student].
• Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002). B. Lovell and R. M. May in Nature 416:34 (2002). Obituary.