Papers, etc.

Some papers are at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia). Division of Radiophysics (description). There is an extensive oral history interview at the National Library of Australia. There are some papers at the Caltech Archives.

Other References: Historical

Bhathal, Ragbir, Australian Astronomers: Achievements at the Frontiers of Astronomy (National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1996), pp. 104-16.

Bolton, J.G., “Australian Work on Radio Stars,” Vistas in Astronomy 1, 568-73 (1955).

Bolton, J.G., “Radio Astronomy at Dover Heights,” Proc. Astron. Soc. Australia 4, 349-58 (1982).

Bolton, J.G., “The Fortieth Anniversary of Extragalactic Radio Astronomy: Radiophysics in Exile,” Proc. Astron. Soc. Australia 8, 381-83 (1990).

Cohen, Marshall H., “The Owens Valley Radio Observatory: Early Years,” Engineering and Science 57, 8-23 (1994).

CSIRO, “Radio Astronomy at Dover Heights”
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/about/history/doverheights/index.html

Evans, David Stanley, Under Capricorn : A History of Southern Hemisphere Astronomy (A. Hilger, Bristol, UK, 1988).

Gascoigne, S.C.B., Katrina M. Proust, & Malcolm O. Robins, The Creation of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1990).

Goddard, Dorothy E. & Raymond F. Haynes, eds.,“Pioneering a new astronomy: Papers in memory of John G. Bolton,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 5, 495-680. (1994). [also published as a book]

Goddard, E.E. & D.K. Milne, eds., Parkes: Thirty Years of Radio Astronomy (CSIRO, Melbourne, 1994).

Harris, D.E., “Cygnus A—John Bolton’s First Cosmic Source,” Aust. J. Phys. 47, 615-18 (1994).

Haynes, Raymond F. & Roslynn D., “3C 273: The Hazards of Publication,” Proc. Astr. Soc. Australiat 10, 4, 355-56 (1993).

Haynes, Raymond, Roslynn Haynes, David Malin, & Richard McGee, Explorers of the Southern Sky. A History of Australian Astronomy (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1996).

Hey, John S., The Evolution of Radio Astronomy (Science History Publications, NY, 1973).

Home, R.W., ed. Australian Science in the Making (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1988), 345-373.

Milne, D. K., “ John Bolton and the Rainmakers,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 549-53 (1994).

Mills, B. Y., J. Electr. Electron. Eng. Aust. 8, 1, 12-23 (1988).

Munns, David, “Linear Accelerators, Radio Astronomy, and Australia’s Search for International Prestige, 1944-1948,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27, pt 2, 299-317 (1997).

Orchiston, Wayne, “ John Bolton, Discrete Sources, and the New Zealand Field-trip of 1948,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 541-47 (1994).

Orchiston, W. & B. Slee, “Ingenuity and Inititative in Australian Radio Astronomy: The Dover Heights ‘Hole-in-the-Ground’ Antenna,” Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage 5, 21-34 (2002).

Roberts, J. A., “Some Memories of John Bolton from Caltech and Early Years at Parkes,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 561-67 (1994).

Robertson, Peter, Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1992).

Harris, D.E., “Cygnus A—John Bolton’s First Cosmic Source,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 615-18 (1994).

Savage, Ann, “Wild, Woolley and Savage—or how John Bolton and I went Hunting for Quasars and QSOs,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 589-97 (1994).

Stanley, G. J., “Recollections of John G. Bolton at Dover-Heights and Caltech,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 507-16 (1994).

Sullivan, W.T., III, Classics in Radio Astronomy (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1982).

Sullivan, W.T, III., ed., The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years after Jansky’s Discovery (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1984).

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III., “The Beginnings of Australian Radio Astronomy,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 8, 11-32 (2005) [abstract].

Westerhout, Gart, “The Early History of Radio Astronomy,” in Education in and History of Modern Astronomy, ed. by R. Berendzen (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 198, 211-18).

Westfold, K.C., “ Bolton, John—Some Early Memories,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 535-39 (1994).

Whiteoak, J.B., “John Bolton as a Pioneer of OH Spectroscopy,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 577-84 (1994).

Wild, J. P., “History of Australian Astronomy: The Beginnings of Radio Astronomy in Australia,” Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust. 7, 1, 95-102 (1987).

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Other References:Scientific

Payne-Scott, Ruby, D.E. Yabsley, & J.G. Bolton, “Relative Times of Arrival of Solar Noise on Different Radio Frequencies,” Nature 160, 256 (1947).

Bolton, J.G. & G.J. Stanley, “Variable Source of Radio-Frequency Radiation in the Constellation of Cygnus,” Nature 161, 312 (1948).

Bolton, J.G. & G.J. Stanley, “Observations on the Variable Source of Cosmic Radio Frequency Radiation in the Constellation of Cygnus,” Austr. J. Sci. Res., A 1, 58-69 (1948).

Bolton, J., “Discrete Sources of Galactic Radio Noise,” Nature 162, 141-42 (1948).

Bolton, J.G., G.J. Stanley, & O.B. Slee, “Positions of Three Discrete Sources of Galactic Radio-Frequency Radiation,” Nature 164, 101 (1949).

Bolton, J.G. & K.C. Westfold, “Structure of the Galaxy and the Sense of Rotation of Spiral Nebulae,” Nature 165, 487-88 (1950).

Bolton, J.G. & K.C. Westfold, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. I. 100 Mc/s Survey,” Aust. J. Sci. Res. A 3, 19 (1950).

Bolton, J.G. & K.C. Westfold, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. III. Galactic Structure,” Aust. J. Sci. Res. A 3, 251 (1950).

Bolton, J.G. & K.C. Westfold, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. IV. The Distribution of Radio Stars in the Galaxy,” Aust. J. Sci. Res. A 4, 476 (1951).

Bolton, J.G., “Radio Astronomy at U.R.S.I.,” Observatory 73, 23-26 (1953).

Bolton, J.G. & O.B. Slee, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. V. The Sea Interferometer,” Austr. J. Phys. 6, 420-33 (1953).

Bolton, J.G., O.B. Slee, & G.J. Stanley, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. VI. Low Altitude Scintillations of the Discrete Sources,” Austr. J. Phys. 6, 434-51 (1953).

Bolton, J.G., K.C. Westfold, G.J. Stanley, & O.B. Slee, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. VII. Discrete Sources with Large Angular Widths,” Aust. J. Sci. Res. A 7, 96 (1954).

Bolton, J.G., G.J. Stanley, & O.B. Slee, “Galactic Radiation at Radio Frequencies. VIII. Discrete Sources at 100 Mc/s between Declinations +50° and –50°,” Aust. J. Sci. Res. A 7, 110-29 (1954).

Bolton, J.G., “Distribution of Radio Stars,” Observatory 76, 62-64 (1956).

Bolton, J.G., “Radio Telescopes for Position Finding,” PASP 68, 477-94 (1956).

Bolton, J.G., “Radio Astronomy of Galaxies,” Astronomical Journal 61, 168-69 (1956).

Radhakrishnan, V. & J.G. Bolton, “21-cm Absorption Studies of Galactic Radio Sources,” Astronomical Journal 65, 498 (1960).

Bolton, J.G. & B.G. Clark, “A Study of Centaurus A at 31 Centimeters,” PASP 72, 29-35 (1960).

Wilson, R.W. & J.G. Bolton, “A Survey of Galactic Radiation at 960 Mc/s,” PASP 72, 331-47 (1960).

Bolton, J.G., F.F. Gardner, & M.B. Mackey, “A Radio Source with a Very Unusual Spectrum,” Nature 199, 682 (1963).

Bolton, J.G., F.F. Gardner, & M.B. Mackey, “The Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources Declination Zone –20° to –60 °,” Austr. J. Phys. 17, 340-72 (1964).

Bolton, J.G., Margaret E. Clarke, Allan Sandage, & P. Véron, “Identifications of Six Faint Radio Sources with Quasi-Stellar Objects,” Ap.J. 142, 189-90 (1965). [erratum]

Bolton, J.G., et al, “Radio and Optical Data on Fifteen Quasi-Stellar Objects,” Ap.J. 144, 1229-31 (1966).

Arp, H.C., J.G. Bolton, & T.D. Kinman, “A Quasi-Stellar Object with a Redshift of 2.22 and an Unusual Absorption Spectrum,” Ap.J. 147, 840-45 (1967).

Bolton, J.G., “Extragalactic Radio Sources,” Astronomical Journal 74, 131-38 (1969) [Henry Norris Russell Lecture for 1968].

Wall, J.V., Ann Savage, A.E. Wright, & J.G. Bolton, “Selected Area Surveys at 5 GHz. I. Catalogue for the 22^h, –18° Region,” MNRAS 200, 1123-34 (1982).

Savage, Ann, J.G. Bolton & J.V. Wall, “Selected Area Surveys at 5 GHz. II. Optical Identifications for the 22^h, –18° Region,” MNRAS 200, 1135-41 (1982).

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Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.

Bolton, J.G., “The Quasar Quest,” Astronomical Insights, ed. P. Pockley (Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1970), 23-30.

Bolton, J.G., “The Changing Universe” Australian Physicist 8, 129-33 (1976) [11th Pawsey Memorial Lecture].