Thursday, August 31, 2006

Happy Birthday, Bernard!

Bernard LovellSir Bernard Lovell was born today in 1913 (and he's still alive - hooray!)

Lovell was the driving force behind the construction of the Mark 1 Jodrell Bank telescope, which was the world's first large radio telescope and the first steerable one. He showed that M31 was a radio source and for all practical purposes created radio astronomy.

Many happy returns of the day!

Jodrell Bank's Lovell Radiotelescope

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