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

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. Phil Diamond is Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.In his lecture he touches on some of the practical, political, technical, financial and organisational challenges faced by the teams who developed Jodrell Bank and built e-MERLIN.

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Telescopes Now Lecture 2: Jodrell Bank, the Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN is an episode from Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University.

This episode is 71:52 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2009.

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