Authorised form of name | Lovell; Sir; Alfred Charles Bernard (1913 - 2012) |
Dates | 1913 - 2012 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England |
Date of birth | 31/08/1913 |
Place of death | England |
Date of death | 06/08/2012 |
Activity | Honours: OBE 1946; Kt 1961
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 17/03/1955 |
Age at election | 41 |
RSActivity | Royal Society roles: Council: 1963-1965 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1960 Lectures: Tercentenary 1960; Rutherford Memorial 1984 |
Source | References: Sir Bernard Lovell, 'The Blackett-Eckersley-Lovell Correspondence of World War II and the Origin of Jodrell Bank' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 119-131 Sir Francis Graham-Smith, 'Seeing Through the Clouds', review of Bernard Lovell, Echoes of War: the Story of H2S Radar in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 159-160 R Hanbury Brown, review of Bernard Lovell, Astronomer By Chance in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 200-202 B Lovell, 'The cavity magnetron in World War II: was the secrecy justified?' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 283 - 294 |
Code | NA7992 |
RefNo | Title | Date |
IM/002813 | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard | nd |
PB/2/5/1/2 | Blackett's correspondence with Max Born and Erwin Freundlich re content and publication of their papers with other colleagues in the field re the red shift. | c.1953-1954 |
PB/8/6/7 | Papers and talks on science and society by others, collected by Blackett, many annotated by him. | c.1943-1945 |
PB/9/1/101/7 | Royal Society correspondence | 1968 |
P/0260 | Portrait of Lovell, (Alfred Charles) Bernard | 1963 |
PB/9/1/119 | Correspondence with FP Thompson and others | 1973 |
PB/4/1/4 | Correspondence, mainly with Sir John Cockcroft, on personnel for teams for coastal defence radar chains | July-September 1939 |
IM/GA/WS/4864 | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard | nd |
PB/1/25 | Correspondence re portraits of Blackett commissioned by Manchester University and Imperial College | 1963-1967 |
PB/1/33/3/4 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
PB/9/1/101/15 | Royal Society correspondence | 1973 |
EXP/11/1/1/253 | Halley Bay expedition file, B, 'IGY/RSAE Leader's orders 1957', leaders orders to Dalgliesh and Smart of the Royal Society Antarctic Expeditions | 1955-1957 |
RR/57/76 | Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of thin metallic films II— caesium and potassium on pyrex glass surfaces' by E T S Appleyard and Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell | [November 1936] |
RR/66/147 | Memoranda, on a paper 'Shower production by penetrating cosmic rays' by Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell | 19 June 1939 |
RR/67/33 | Memorandum by J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Radio echoes and cosmic ray showers' by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell to William Lawrence Bragg | 31 October 1940 |
HWT/5/7 | Agenda (annotated by Thompson), papers, Thompson's manuscript notes, and minutes of meeting held on 27 January 1967 | January 1967 |
PB/8/75/2/3 | Correspondence re current developments in British Astronomy. | 1967 |
EC/1955/17 | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MS/870 | Diaries and other papers of Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard Lovell FRS (1913-2012) physicist and radio astronomer | 1932-1960 |
RR/65/170 | Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of thin metallic films III— Alkali films with the properties of the normal metal' by Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell | February 1938 |