Telescopes Now Lecture 2: Jodrell Bank, the Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN

Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University

Mar 3, 200971:52Education

In the second in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in the telescope, Professor Phil Diamond talks about his work at Jodrell Bank on E-Merlin, and in particular the Lovell Telescope. Phi...

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