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The Reith Lectures: Bernard Lovell - The Individual and the Universe: The Origin of the Solar System

Bernard Lovell - The Individual and the Universe

16/11/1958

The Origin of the Solar System

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Bernard Lovell - The Individual and the Universe, The Origin of the Solar System

Professor Bernard Lovell considers how our solar system was created.

Professor Bernard Lovell considers how our solar system was created in his second Reith lecture entitled 'The Origin of the Solar System'.

This year's Reith Lecturer is Professor Bernard Lovell, the first Director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory, and Professor of Radio Astronomy at Manchester University. During the Second World War, he helped to develop radar systems for aircrafts, for which he received an OBE in 1946. He delivers six lectures on the wonders of the solar system in his series entitled 'The Individual and the Universe'.

In his second lecture entitled 'The Origin of the Solar System', Professor Lovell considers how our solar system was created. He analyses some of the theories that astronomers have put forward to explore the beginning of the universe as we know it. 

The Reith Lectures: Bernard Lovell - The Individual and the Universe

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Professor Bernard Lovell examines the history of inquiry into the origins of the universe.

Bernard Lovell, Professor of Radio Astronomy at Manchester University, examines the history of and current inquiry into our solar system and the origin of the universe.

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