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Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard was born on August 31, 1913 in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England. Son of Gilbert and Emily Laura (Adams) Lovell.
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Written by two prominent figures in radio astronomy, this well-established, graduate-level textbook is a thorough and up-to-date introduction to radio telescopes and techniques. It is an invaluable overview for students and researchers turning to radio astronomy for the first time. The first half of the book describes how radio telescopes work - from basic antennas and single aperture dishes through to full aperture-synthesis arrays. It includes reference material on the fundamentals of astrophysics and observing techniques. The second half of the book reviews radio observations of our galaxy, stars, pulsars, radio galaxies, quasars, and the cosmic microwave background. This third edition describes the applications of fundamental techniques to newly developing radio telescopes, including ATA, LOFAR, MWA, SKA, and ALMA, which all require an understanding of aspects specific to radio astronomy. Two entirely new chapters now cover cosmology, from the fundamental concepts to the most recent results of WMAP.
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Describes the work leading up to the moments of discovery and the role performed by the Jodrell Bank telescope. Also discusses the development of the long base-line interferometers, the impact of computer technology, and the relevance of the new knowledge gained to cosmological theory. The collaboration with the U.S. and Russia, which gave added importance to the work, is also discussed. A more technical book than "The Story of Jodrell Bank", sure to capture the interest of all who are aware that the exploration of outer space is one of the most important and absorbing fields of contemporary science.
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This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the ambiguity of offscreen space and spectatorship (how an audience reads an unseen but inferred setting), and the use of spatially disruptive cinematic techniques such as flashback to construct meaning.
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This firsthand account traces the political and scientific interplay that took place in Great Britain during two critical decades in astronomy, from 1960 to 1980. The author describes the development of visionary schemes for radio telescopes of unprecedented size; the events that led to their cancellation; and how astronomers responded with the modification of the 250-foot steerable telescope at Jodrell Bank and the completion of the MERLIN network of radio telescopes.
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In this volume the creator and director of Jodrell Bank, the world's largest radio telescope, tells the fascinating story behind the building of this huge telescope. Though the telescope is popularly known for tracking and communicating with man-made satellites, its prime function is the study of the universe by means of radio waves emitted by distatant stars. The radiation received from meteors, the moon, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Milky Way offers new information daily about the origins of life on this planet and the possibilities of life on other worlds. The building of the telescope was fraught with mishaps and frustrations-financial, political, and otherwise; yet, through his perseverance, Sir Bernard Lovell made its creation a reality. His story, drawn largely from personal diaries, documents the complex conflicts among scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians which arose out of this monumental endeavor.
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Radio astronomy uses unique observational techniques and offers the only way to investigate many phenomena in the Universe. This book, by two founders of the field, presents both a clear introduction to radio telescopes and techniques and a broad overview of the radio universe. In the first half of the book, we are shown clearly how radio telescopes work - from basic antennas and single aperture dishes through to full aperture synthesis arrays. In the second half, a wide-ranging and up-to-date review is provided of radio observations of our Milky Way galaxy, stars, pulsars, radio galaxies, quasars and the cosmic microwave background. Handy reviews of Fourier Transform theory, celestial co-ordinate systems and a historical outline of the subject are provided in appendices. Wide-ranging and clearly written, this book provides a thorough introduction to the subject for graduate students, and an invaluable overview for researchers turning to radio astronomy for the first time.
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In this volume the creator and director of Jodrell Bank, the world's largest radio telescope, tells the fascinating story behind the building of this huge telescope. Though the telescope is popularly known for tracking and communicating with man-made satellites, its prime function is the study of the universe by means of radio waves emitted by distatant stars. The radiation received from meteors, the moon, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Milky Way offers new information daily about the origins of life on this planet and the possibilities of life on other worlds. The building of the telescope was fraught with mishaps and frustrations-financial, political, and otherwise; yet, through his perseverance, Sir Bernard Lovell made its creation a reality. His story, drawn largely from personal diaries, documents the complex conflicts among scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians which arose out of this monumental endeavor.
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August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of the war-radar. Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar presents a passionate first-hand account of the development of the Home Sweet Home (H2S) radar systems during World War II. The book provides numerous personal insights into the scientific culture of wartime Britain and details the many personal sacrifices, setbacks, and eventual triumphs made by those actively involved. Bernard Lovell began his work on airborne interception radar in Taffy Bowen's airborne radar group. He was involved in the initial development of the application of the 10 centimeter cavity magnetron to airborne radar that revolutionized radar systems. In the autumn of 1941, the failure of Bomber Command to locate its target over the cloudy skies of Europe prompted the formation of a new group to develop a blind bombing system. Led by Lovell, this group developed the H2S radar system to identify towns and other targets at night or during heavy cloud cover. H2S first saw operational use with the Pathfinder Squadrons in the attack on Hamburg during the night of January 30-31, 1943. Two months later, modified H2S units installed in Coastal Command aircraft operating over the Bay of Biscay had a dramatic tactical effect on the air war against U-boats. The tide had begun to turn. In this fascinating chronicle of the H2S radar project, Sir Bernard Lovell recreates the feel and mood of the wartime years.
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A non fiction story line of how it was lived with emotions of becoming a crew member, as a C-130 Flight Engineer. To bring together family life and Air Force life, with some joy and some sorrow as it unfolded. Written with hopes of going into high schools to inspire the young and give them the urge to want to be able to fly the planes and travel the world. This goes into some depth on maintenance fixes and problems in particularly C-130 aircraft. This could be good reading material for aircrew personnel. It also gives some understanding as to what politics has to do with service life, like getting fired by the First Lady of the United States. Except for not including "Elvis" (Which occurred before the start of the story) this book could just about be the "Forrest Gump" of the Air Force. To write about some of the events that happened, the author had to go back in time in his mind to relive some bad times. Aircraft crashes and the trauma of the ongoing war or wars, he had to put himself back there and through some of the nightmares that would follow these experiences that had to be relived again and again, as if they were just echoes. Only these echoes brought with them the smells and screams as if they just happened again, only with fresh tears. This story I suppose actually started back about 1948. I was so fascinated with aircraft when I was 14 years old; I would ride my bike nearly two miles over the top of a hill, that over looked the Birmingham, Alabama airport. To park the bike, and sit on the ground for maybe an hour or so, just to watch the planes land and take off. At that time most of the planes were the war-birds that had survived the war. The passenger planes had been converted from military cargo planes. There were some new planes coming on the scene too. I had just turned seventeen when I went with my friend Raymond to the Air Force recruiters for him to sign up. Sitting in the car got too cold so I went in to get warm, and I signed up too, for four years. Four days later, I was strapped in a converted C-47, and leaving the runway that I dreamed of, some three years before.{As a passenger) After basic training, of all things, they assigned me to the aircraft maintenance field. The first school lasted six months, but it was just basic maintenance, but there was more to come. For each aircraft you worked on, you had to go to further schooling for that particular type. So it went, from C-54s, to C-119s, then to C-130s. This latest bird was the Queen of the crop. It also put me stationed at Ashiya AFB, Japan where we were getting brand new planes. This story takes up here, where my whole squadron was going to be in training, not just me.
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Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard was born on August 31, 1913 in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England. Son of Gilbert and Emily Laura (Adams) Lovell.
Student, University Bristol. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Edinburgh, 1961. Doctor of Laws, University Edinburgh, Calgary, 1966.
Distinguished Service Cross (honorary), University Leicester, 1961. Distinguished Service Cross, University Leicester, Leeds, 1966. Distinguished Service Cross, University Leicester, Bath, 1967.
Distinguished Service Cross, University Leicester, London, 1967. Distinguished Service Cross, University Leicester, Bristol, 1970. Distinguished Service Cross, University Stirling, 1974.
Distinguished Service Cross, University Surrey, 1975. Doctor of Science, University Surrey, Manchester, 2008.
Assistant Lecturer in Physics, University of Manchester 1936-1939, Lecturer 1945-1947, Senior Lecturer 1947^49, Reader 51, Professor, of Radio Astronomy 1951-1981, Emeritus Professor since 1981. With Telecommunications Research Est. 1939-1945; Founder and Director Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank 1945-1981.
Fellow, Royal Society 1955. Honorary Foreign; President Royal Astronomical Society 1969-1971, British Association 1974-1975. Vice-President Institute Astronomical Union 1970-1976.
Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy 1962, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1967, Institute of Physics 1975. Honorary Freeman City of Manchester 1977, Honorary Doctor of Laws (Edinburgh) 1961, (Calgarv) Honorary Doctor of Science (Leicester) 1961, (Leeds) 1966, (Bath, London) 1967, (Bristol) 1970, Honorary D.Univ. (Stirling) 1974, (Surrey) 1975.
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Author: Science and Civilization, 1939, World Power Resources and Social Development, 1945, Radio Astronomy, 1952, 1954, The Exploration of Space by Radio, 1957, The Individual and the Universe, 1958, The Exploration of Outer Space, 1962, Discovering the Universe, 1963, Our Present Knowledge of the Universe, 1967. Editor (with T. Morgerison): The Explosion of Science: The Physical Universe, 1967. Editor: The Story of Jodrell Bank, 1968, The Origins and International Economics of Space Exploration, 1973, Out of the Zenith: Jodrell Bank, 1957-1970, 1973, Man's Relation to the Universe75, P.M.S. Blackett - a Biographical Memoir, 1976, In the Center of Immensities, 1978, Emerging Cosmology, 1980, The Jodrell Bank Telescopes, 1984, Voice of the Universe, 1987.Editor: (with Sir Frances Graham Smith) Pathways to the Universe, 1988. Editor: Echoes of War, 1991. Contributor articles to physical and astronomical journals.
Fellow: Royal Society, Institute Physics, Institution Electrical Engineers (honorary), Royal Swedish Academy. Member: Royal Astronomical Society (president 1970-1971, Gold medal 1981), New York Academy of Sciences 1960 (honorary. Lefe member), American Academy Arts and Sciences 1955 (honorary. Foreign member). Aeronautical Research Council 1955-1958, Science Research Council 1965-1970.
Married Mary Joyce Chesterman Lovell, September 14, 1937.