James W. Warwick
James Walter Warwick was an American astronomer, a pioneer of low frequency radio astronomy.
Biography
Warwick was born on May 22, 1924 in Toledo, Ohio. During the war, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corp as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress radar bombardier in the South Pacific. After the war he studied at Harvard University, and got his BA, MA, and PhD there. After graduation he worked on solar flares at Harvard College Observatory's Sacramento Peak Station in New Mexico, and the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado. In 1955, he moved to University of Colorado Boulder, where he founded the Department of Astrogeophysics. He retired in 1989.Warwick was the principal investigator for Voyager program's Planetary Radio Astronomy instrument. He then left the University of Colorado Boulder, and founded Radiophysics, Inc.
Warwick participated in IAU commissions on Radio Astronomy and on Solar Radiation.
Warwick played clarinet in an army band during the war. At 39, he took cello lessons. He played cello and clarinet for the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and played at a local church. He was married three times.