"The successful launching of the Sputnik was a demonstration of one of the highest scientific and technological achievements of man—a tantalizing invitation both to the militarist in search of ever more devastating means of destruction and to the astronomer searching for new means of carrying his instruments away from their earthbound environment."
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Fellows of the Royal SocietyAstronomers from EnglandPhysicists from EnglandMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyUniversity of Bristol alumni
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"Astronomy Breaks Free", BBC Reith Lecture (9 November 1958) published in The Individual and the Universe (New York: Harper & Bros, 1959) ch. 1
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Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell OBE FRS (31 August 1913 – 6 August 2012) was a British physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
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