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- Birth nameAlfred Charles Bernard Lovell
- Bernard Lovell was born on August 31, 1913 in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was married to Joyce Chesterman. He died on August 6, 2012 in Swettenham, Cheshire, England, UK.
- SpouseJoyce Chesterman(1937 - 1993) (her death, 4 children)
- He studied at the University of Bristol, and joined the University of Manchester's physics department of Physics in 1936.
- He was also an accomplished musician, a avid cricket player, and an arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.
- During World War II, he led a team working on radar technology, for which he was later awarded an OBE.
- He was knighted in 1961 for his contributions to radio astronomy.
- After the war, he returned to Manchester and began planning the observatory. His iconic 76m (249ft) telescope was completed in 1957. Within days of becoming operational, it tracked the rocket that carried Sputnik 1 into orbit. It is the third largest steerable telescope in the world, and plays a key role in research on pulsating stars, testing physics theories including Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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