Telescopes Now Lecture 3: The Gemini Telescopes

In the third in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in telescopes, Professor Roger Davies talks about his work on the Gemini Telescopes. Professor Roger Davies is Philip Whetton Professor of Astrophysics and Chairman of Physics at the University of Oxford. In his lecture he touches on some of the practical, political, technical, financial and organisational challenges he and his team faced when building the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile.

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Telescopes Now Lecture 3: The Gemini Telescopes is an episode from Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University.

This episode is 64:22 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2009.

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