Sir Francis Graham-Smith
Second Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory celebrates milestone. Sir Francis Graham-Smith Sir Francis Graham-Smith On 25th April, University colleagues and friends came together to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS, FRAS, FInstP. Sir Francis, or Graham as he is known to friends and colleagues, was the second Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, taking over from Sir Bernard Lovell when he retired in 1981, and he has had a remarkable career in astronomy. It began as a student working at the University of Cambridge alongside Martin Ryle. There he played a key role in pioneering the new science of radio astronomy, providing some of the most accurate positions for the newly discovered sources of cosmic radio waves. In 1964, he was appointed as a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and moved to Jodrell Bank. He worked on some early space-based radio astronomy experiments as well as ground-based detection of cosmic rays.
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