biography
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Lovell, Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard
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| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Bristol, and became professor of radio astronomy at Manchester (1951–80, then emeritus), and director of Jodrell Bank experimental station (now the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories). He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1958, taking for his subject The Individual and the Universe. He has written several books on radio astronomy and on its relevance to life and civilization today. His works include Radio Astronomy (1951), The Story of Jodrell Bank (1968), Voice of the Universe (1987), and an autobiography, Astronomer by Chance (1990). He was knighted in 1961. |
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