The Story of Jodrell Bank – Monday 17 June 2019

The Story of Jodrell Bank – Monday 17 June 2019

Professor Ian Morison has spent his professional career as a radio-astronomer at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

In 2007 he was appointed to the post of Gresham Professor of Astronomy, the oldest chair of astronomy in the world, once held by Christopher Wren. In this lecture he gives a historical survey of the development of Jodrell Bank. He will describe some of its most exciting early discoveries along with its current role in observing pulsars to test Einstein’s theories. He explains how, as part of both the e-MERLIN array and also an array that stretches across Europe, it has enabled the details to be seen of exploding stars in a galaxy twelve and a half million light years away.

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