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"Under the radar" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction: the life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott - 28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney, Australia)
• 2- Ruby Payne-Scott: the early years: 1912-1938, ancestors, childhood, secondary school and Sydney University
• 3- Woodlands School, AWA, new career opportunities for women in World War II
• 4- Personnel file from CSIR/CSIRO
• 5- War time research by Payne-Scott at RPL
• 6- Payne-Scott - the first woman radio astronomer and the transition to peacetime - 1944-1945
• 7- Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945-1947: discovery of type I, II and III solar bursts and the introduction of Fourier synthesis in astronomy
• 8- Hornsby 1948: type III bursts revealed; conflicts with Bolton
• 9- Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949-1951: movies of the outward motions of solar outbursts with swept-lobe interferometer
• 10- Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952: her last experience as a radio astronomer
• 11- Reminiscences and anecdote of Ruby Payne-Scott as told by friends and colleagues
• 12- A remarkable family: Bill and Ruby Hall
• 13- Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, commonwealth investigation service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
• 14- Danebank School 1963-1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott lectures
• 15- The end of Payne-Scott's life; a retrospective
• 16- Epilogue: why did we write this book?

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