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English: Plaque next to Ewen-Purcell Horn Antenna now at National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Text of Plaque: This Horn antenna was used by Harold L. Ewen and Edward M. Purcell at the Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University in 1951 for the first detection of radio radiation from nuclear atomic hydrogen gas in the milky way at a wavelength of 21 centimeters.
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