About 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. At the beginning of the war, Lovell published his first book, Science and Civilization. Lovell won numerous awards including: Lovell was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. A building on the QinetiQ site in Malvern is also named after him, as was the fictional scientist Bernard Quatermass, the hero of several BBC Television science-fiction serials of the 1950s, whose first name was chosen in honour of Lovell.
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