Astronomer, physicist and the first director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory Professor Bernard Lovell contemplates the implications of evolutionary theory in the fifth lecture in his Reith Lectures series ‘The Individual and the Universe’.
Reith Lectures — Bernard Lovell: The Individual and the Universe, Part 1, 1958
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Reith Lectures — Bernard Lovell: The Individual and the Universe, Part 2, 1958
Astronomer, physicist and the first director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory Professor Bernard Lovell explores the continuous creation theory of the universe in the final lecture of his Reith Lectures series ‘The Individual and the Universe’.
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1953 6. The Sciences and Man’s Community
Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series ‘Science and the Common Understanding’.
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October 12th: Lovell Telescope Detects Sputnik
On this day in 1957, the newly constructed Mark I telescope at Jodrell Bank became involved in the dawn of the space age when it picked up a radar echo from the rocket that had carried Sputnik 1 into space. We tell you about the history of the famous telescope, which was later named after its founder Sir Bernard Lovell, and describe some of the astronomical observations it has been involved with since.