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Post by mak2 on Aug 7, 2012 22:55:28 GMT 1
Forget Olympic medals for a moment and celebrate a life of real achievement.
One can't be too sad because he had a pretty good innings but Sir Bernard Lovell, one of the founding fathers of radio-astronomy, has died at the age of 98.
He overcame tremendous difficulties to build the radio telescope a Jodrell Bank. He was a professor at Manchester University and a very nice guy.
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Post by principled on Aug 8, 2012 14:53:35 GMT 1
Mak
As a young man I remember when this was built and the excitement with which it was received. Looking out to the "final frontier" was in the realms of science fiction. It goes to show his foresight when you consider that it was first built in the 1950s when there was but 1 B&W TV channel and satellite comms was still a pipe dream, and yet it still plays a part 60 years later in a world with computers, mobile phones, GPS, 3D colour TV and over 3000 comms satellites! Apparently, he got his idea from the use of radar in WWII. Not sure if that is true.
Like many scientists of his day he came across as very unassuming.
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Post by striker16 on Sept 3, 2012 17:48:15 GMT 1
To be honest, this news came as a complete surprise to me when I read mak2's post. It just shows how modern society has become obsessed by celebrities who's only claim to fame is appearing on the box, mags., mindless TV shows, and the like. No wonder the general educational standard achieved in this country is so lamentably poor when compared to other countries.
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