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101. The first picture of the surface of the Moon | 130 | 03:13 | |
102. Working between the Soviets and Americans | 107 | 05:51 | |
103. America successfully lands on the Moon | 113 | 04:57 | |
104. A visit to the Telecommunications Research Establishment in... | 100 | 02:03 | |
105. Work for the Air Ministry | 68 | 03:28 | |
106. Jodrell Bank's involvement in the Cuban missile crisis | 124 | 07:41 | |
107. Important work enabled by use of the steerable telescope | 74 | 02:51 | |
108. A visit to Fylingdales and my retirement | 145 | 03:47 |
Bernard Lovell (1913-2012), British radio astronomer and founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, received an OBE in 1946 for his work on radar, and was knighted in 1961 for his contribution to the development of radio astronomy. He obtained a PhD in 1936 at the University of Bristol. His steerable radio telescope, which tracked Sputnik across the sky, is now named the Lovell telescope.
Title: A visit to Fylingdales and my retirement
Listeners: Alastair Gunn Megan Argo
Alastair Gunn is an astrophysicist at Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester. He is responsible for the coordination and execution of international radio astronomical observations at the institute and his professional research concerns the extended atmospheres of highly active binary stars. Alastair has a deep interest and knowledge of the history of radio astronomy in general and of Jodrell Bank in particular. He has written extensively about Jodrell Bank's history.
Megan Argo is an astronomer at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory researching supernovae and star formation in nearby starburst galaxies. As well as research, she is involved with events in the Observatory's Visitor Centre explaining both astronomy and the history of the Observatory to the public.
Tags: Manchester Airport, Fylingdales, Royal Air Force, Jodrell Bank, Cheltenham, Morris Dean
Duration: 3 minutes, 47 seconds
Date story recorded: January 2007
Date story went live: 05 September 2008