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SUMMARY:Lovell Lecture: Professor Tim O'Brien
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DESCRIPTION:One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon\nBy Pro
 fessor Tim O’Brien\n\nJuly 2019 will mark fifty years since humans first
  set foot on another celestial body. In the run up to the anniversary\, 
 Professor Tim O’Brien will tell the story of Jodrell Bank’s role in the 
 race to the Moon. This entertaining presentation will include audio-visu
 al material from Jodrell Bank’s archive and feature aspects of both the 
 American and Russian space programmes.\n\nTim O’Brien is a Professor of 
 Astrophysics and an Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrop
 hysics at The University of Manchester.\n\nHe has published around 150 r
 esearch papers\, mainly on the study of thermonuclear explosions on whit
 e dwarf stars in binary systems. He has used a wide range of telescopes 
 around the world and in space\, including the e-MERLIN radio telescopes 
 operated from Jodrell Bank\, X-ray satellites\, the Hubble Space Telesco
 pe and the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Most recently\, he has begun w
 ork on the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence using radio telesco
 pes (he hasn’t found any yet).\n\nTim is also a director for Jodrell Ban
 k’s annual festival of discovery\, bluedot where he regularly presents s
 cience talks on the main stage to thousands of festival-goers. He also h
 elps programme the festival’s popular DotTalks series featuring some of 
 the UK’s leading scientists and thinkers. The 2019 bluedot festival will
  celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.\n\nPre-lecture din
 ing available.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Jodrell Bank\, Bomish Lane\, \, \, \, Lower Withington\, Cheshir
 e SK11 9DL\, SK11 9DL
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