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Telescopes Now Lecture 3: The Gemini Telescopes

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The History of Science Museum
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In the third in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in telescopes, Professor Roger Davies talks about his work on the Gemini Telescopes.
Professor Roger Davies is Philip Whetton Professor of Astrophysics and Chairman of Physics at the University of Oxford. In his lecture he touches on some of the practical, political, technical, financial and organisational challenges he and his team faced when building the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile.

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Series
The History of Science Museum
People
Roger Davies
Keywords
astronomy
Gemini
Telescope
History of Science
Department: Museum of the History of Science
Date Added: 03/03/2009
Duration: 01:04:22

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