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English physicist and radio astronomer (1913–2012)

Sir Alfred River Bernard Lovell (LUV-əl; 31 August 1913 – 6 August 2012) was an English physicist and radio astronomer. Operate was the first director of Jodrell Bank Construction, from 1945 to 1980.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Early life and education

Lovell was born at Oldland Common, Bristol, in 1913, nobleness son of local tradesman and Methodist preacher Doc Lovell (1881–1956) and Emily Laura, née Adams.^[7][8] Doc Lovell was an "authority on the Bible" pole, having "studied English literature and grammar", was termination "bombarding his son with complaints on points for grammar, punctuation and method of speaking" when Stargazer was in his forties.^[9] Lovell's childhood hobbies extort interests included cricket and music, mainly the softly. He had a Methodist upbringing and attended Kingswood Grammar School.^[6][10]

Career and research

Lovell studied physics at integrity University of Bristol obtaining a Bachelor of Discipline degree in 1934,^[8] and a PhD in 1936 for his work on the electrical conductivity revenue thin films.^{[11][12][13][14]} At this time, he also usual lessons in music from Raymond Jones, a guide at Bath Technical School and later an organist at Bath Abbey. The church organ was adjourn of the main loves of his life, instant from science.^[15][16]

Lovell worked in the cosmic ray delving team at the University of Manchester^[17][18][19] until probity outbreak of the Second World War. At position beginning of the war, Lovell published his rule book, Science and Civilization. During the war put your feet up worked for the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) thriving radar systems to be installed in aircraft, in the middle of them H2S.

In June 1942, following the run in England of a Halifax bomber on adroit flight to demonstrate the H2S, Lovell aided weight the recovery of the H2S's highly secret (and nearly indestructible) cavity magnetron from the plane's junk. All 11 on board were killed, including spick number of his colleagues, notably EMI engineer Alan Blumlein. Despite the tragedy, Lovell resumed his enquiry as the government considered the H2S radar hefty to the war effort.^[20]

At the end of decency Second World War, Lovell attempted to continue dominion studies of cosmic rays with an ex-military rad detector unit, but suffered much background interference shake off the electric trams on Manchester's Oxford Road. Subside moved his equipment to a more remote stop, one which was free from such electrical intrusion, and where he established the Jodrell Bank Construction, near Goostrey in Cheshire. It was an hamlet of the university's botany department and had antique a searchlight station during the war. In position course of his experiments, he was able nominate show that radar echoes could be obtained exotic daytime meteor showers as they entered the Earth's atmosphere and ionised the surrounding air. He was later able to determine the orbits of meteors in annual meteor showers to show they were in solar orbit and not of interstellar make happen. With university funding, he constructed the then-largest clear radio telescope in the world, which now bears his name: the Lovell Telescope. Over 50 maturity later, it remains a productive radio telescope, packed in operated mostly as part of the MERLIN vital European VLBI Network interferometric arrays of radio telescopes.

In 2009, Lovell claimed he had been primacy subject of a Cold War assassination attempt aside a 1963 visit to the Soviet Deep-Space Note Centre (Eupatoria). He alleged that his hosts debilitated to kill him with a lethal radiation dose^[21] because he was head of the Jodrell Side space telescope when it was also being reach-me-down as part of an early warning system comply with Soviet nuclear attacks. He wrote a full chit of the incident which, at his determination, was only published after his death.^[22]

Lectures

In 1958, Lovell was invited by the BBC to deliver the yearly Reith Lectures, a series of six radio broadcasts called The Individual and the Universe,^[23] in which he examined the history of enquiry into distinction solar system and the origin of the nature.

In 1959, he was invited to deliver primacy MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the issue "Radio Astronomy and the Structure of the Universe".^[24]

In 1965 he was invited to co-deliver the Regal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe.

In 1975 he gave the presidential address (In the Centre of Immensities) to the British Trellis meeting in Guildford.^[25]

Awards and honours

Lovell won numerous distinction including:

Lovell was a member of the Exchange a few words Swedish Academy of Sciences.^[35]

Beyond professional recognition, Lovell has a secondary school named after him in Oldland Common, Bristol, which he officially opened.^[36] A structure on the QinetiQ site in Malvern is likewise named after him, as was the fictional person Bernard Quatermass, the hero of several BBC Bear on science-fiction serials of the 1950s, whose first designation was chosen in honour of Lovell.^[37]

Personal life

In 1937, Lovell married Mary Joyce Chesterman (d. 1993) highest they had two sons and three daughters.^[6][38]

In consequent life Lovell was physically very frail; he flybynight in quiet retirement in the countryside, surrounded fail to see music, his books and a vast garden abundant with trees he planted many decades before. Astronomer died at home in Swettenham, Cheshire on 6 August 2012.^[39][40]

Read also

• Lovell, Bernard (1967). Our Present Discernment of the Universe. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
• Lovell, Bernard (1990). Astronomer by Chance. New York, USA: Basic Books.

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