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Sir Bernard Lovell
(31 Aug 1913 - )
English radio astronomer and physicist who steered the founding of the Jodrell Bank Observatory and its 250-ft diameter radio telescope (1957). He served as its first director from 1945 to 1980.
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Science Quotes by Sir Bernard Lovell (1)
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. ... The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
— Sir Bernard Lovell
The Individual and the Universe (1959), 73.
