Media1959

Cocconi and Morrison propose searching for interstellar radio signals

When

19 Sep 1959

Where

Ithaca, NY

Sources

1 public source

Cornell physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison argued in Nature that radio telescopes could detect deliberate signals from other civilizations, suggesting a search near the 21 cm hydrogen line. The paper is widely regarded as the scientific starting point of SETI.