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Name
  
Francis Graham-Smith

Role
  
Astronomer


Education
  
Known for
  
Francis Graham-Smith

Born
  
25 April 1923 (age 101) (
1923-04-25
)

Books
  
Optics and photonics, Unseen Cosmos: The Univ, Pathways to the universe, Optics, Sir Martin Ryle

A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM - Dec 92


Sir Francis Graham-Smith (born 25 April 1923) is a British astronomer. He was the thirteenth Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.

Contents

The Furthest Depths of the Universe - Sept 86


Education

He was educated at Rossall School, Lancashire, England, and attended Downing College, Cambridge from 1941.

Career

In the late 1940s he worked at the University of Cambridge on the Long Michelson Interferometer.

In 1964 he was appointed Professor of Radio Astronomy at Manchester and in 1981 director of the Royal Astronomy Laboratory. He was also Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1975 to 1981.

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1970 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1987.

He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1975 to 1977.

He was the thirteenth Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.

Patronage

Sir Francis Graham-Smith is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and is a patron of Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society.

Lectures

In 1965 he was invited to co-deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe.

References

Francis Graham-Smith Wikipedia


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