Wild, Woolley and Savage ? or how John Bolton and I went hunting for Quasars and QSOs

Abstract

This paper is about how I met John Bolton and includes some highlights of the four years I took compiling my Ph.D. at the Parkes Observatory. It is strongly linked to the discovery of quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) and QSOs (quasi-stellar objects, not necessarily radio sources)-John being dedicated to discovering quasars and I to discovering QSOs. I hope my perception of John Bolton as a person comes through as it seems I was fortunate in meeting him at a time when, according to some, he had mellowed!