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Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

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Mon, Aug 13 2012, 8:57PM
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With all this talk of 'legacy' going around at the moment, I thought I would post this before the word totally loses it's value...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9469003/Jodrell-Bank-Sir-Bernard-Lovells-labours-found.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/07/jodrell-bank-observatory-bernard-lovell-dies

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bernard-lovell-20120812,0,2000630.story

Not very well-known in recent years, but a bit of a star (sorry) to this poster when he was an astronomy-mad eight year-old!

(Well, he and the Jodrell Bank radio telescope were in almost every astronomy book I could lay my hands on at school, and the local library, or that I could get my dad to buy for me.)

An interview on The Sky At Night in 1981 for those interested...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/collections/the_sky_at_night#p00ccmcg

 

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Mon, Aug 13 2012, 9:18PM
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RE: Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

I am from stockport & that story was on granada news last week If we are talking about the same person, Anyway a belated RIP.

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Mon, Aug 13 2012, 10:00PM
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RE: Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

A link I posted on the Gramophone Forum last Tuesday:

Sir Bernard Lovell – astronomer, physicist, creator of Jodrell Bank Observatory and organist – has died aged 98.

Here he talks about his love of music

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Mon, Aug 13 2012, 11:21PM
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RE: Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

Andrew Everard wrote:

A link I posted on the Gramophone Forum last Tuesday:

Sir Bernard Lovell – astronomer, physicist, creator of Jodrell Bank Observatory and organist – has died aged 98.

Here he talks about his love of music

Thanks for the link Andrew. I am going to watch all 108 parts of that! (And there are loads of others I already want to watch. Brilliant site.)

Bookmarked.

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Tue, Aug 14 2012, 10:36AM
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RE: Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

I am now on part 19 (of 108 ) of that 'webstory' Andrew. It's totally engrossing and has even converged on the two villages in Dorset that my mother's family came from and (more relevant to a hi-fi forum) Bernard Lovell's work with stereo recording and television pioneer Alan Blumlein on centimetric radar during the war. (Whose death during tests in an RAF bomber in 1942 was kept secret for the remainder of the war.)  

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Tue, Aug 14 2012, 3:07PM
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RE: Sir Bernard Lovell. RIP.

Having done physics at university, Bernard Lovell was a bit of a hero. He was truly a Great Briton, RIP in the stars.

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