| RefNo | EC/1955/17 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 135; A04446 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his contribution to Radio-Astronomy. He has built up at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, an active school of this new subject. Of particular importance was Dr Lovell's work on the radar detection of meteors and on the physics of the reflection of radio waves from the ionised meteor columns. The discovery of the great daylight summer meteor showers has profoundly affected our general picture of meteor orbits. The first radar detection of Aurora Borealis streams was made at Jodrell Bank in 1949. Recently Lovell and his coworkers have identified the main origin of the fluctuation of galactic noise to be in the ionosphere. |
| Proposers | From personal knowledge. P M S Blackett; H Spencer Jones; W M H Greaves; R O Redman; H H Plaskett; John S B Stopford; F C Williams; F J M Stratton; E C Bullard; Edward V Appleton; H W B Skinner; W B Lewis; E N da C Andrade; H T Tizard; Sydney Chapman |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7992 | Lovell; Sir; Alfred Charles Bernard (1913 - 2012) | 1913 - 2012 |