Sir Bernard Lovell, the founder of Jodrell Bank, has died.
"Sir Bernard Lovell developed the science of radio-astronomy in the UK and was director of Jodrell Bank, the site of the country's largest radio telescope, for 30 years.
When he was developing his idea for a radio telescope in the 1950s, he faced much hostility over the cost of the project.
But this criticism turned to wonder and acclaim when, in October 1957, the telescope showed that it could accurately track the first Soviet sputnik spacecraft."
My school visited Jodrell Bank in the 1960s and I remember the (to me) huge telescopes mounted on railway tracks.
I wonder if he knew that Curiosity had landed on Mars?
A great scientist
"Sir Bernard Lovell developed the science of radio-astronomy in the UK and was director of Jodrell Bank, the site of the country's largest radio telescope, for 30 years.
When he was developing his idea for a radio telescope in the 1950s, he faced much hostility over the cost of the project.
But this criticism turned to wonder and acclaim when, in October 1957, the telescope showed that it could accurately track the first Soviet sputnik spacecraft."
My school visited Jodrell Bank in the 1960s and I remember the (to me) huge telescopes mounted on railway tracks.
I wonder if he knew that Curiosity had landed on Mars?
A great scientist
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