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Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
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science · English physicist and radio astronomer (1913–2012) · astronomer · physicist · university teacher · also Bernard Lovell, Sir Bernard Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Lovell
Born 31 August 1913 · Died 6 August 2012 · Q319234
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2012· 2 entries
Died 2012-08-06.
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Lovell died at home in Swettenham, Cheshire on 6 August 2012.
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2009· 2 entries
Won Dalton Medal (2009).
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Lovell claimed he had been the subject of a Cold War assassination attempt during a 1963 visit to the Soviet Deep-Space Communication Centre (Eupatoria)
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1981· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1980).
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1975· 1 entry
Gave the presidential address (In the Centre of Immensities) to the British Association meeting in Guildford
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1969–1971).
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1965· 1 entry
Was invited to co-deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
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1958· 1 entry
Lovell was invited by the BBC to deliver the annual Reith Lectures, a series of six radio broadcasts called The Individual and the Universe, in which he examined the history of enquiry into the Solar System and the origi
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1954· 1 entry
Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1954).
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1937· 1 entry
Lovell married Mary Joyce Chesterman (d
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1934· 1 entry
And a PhD in 1936 for his work on the electrical conductivity of thin films
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1913· 2 entries
Born 1913-08-31.
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The son of local tradesman and Methodist preacher Gilbert Lovell (1881–1956) and Emily Laura, née Adams
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