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John Ponsonby Radioastronomer

John Ponsonby Radioastronomer

Meggitt, Geoff

Paperback

Physics

ISBN10: 0957554990
ISBN13: 9780957554993
Publisher: Pitchpole Books
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
John Ponsonby had, as a diplomat's son, an upbringing largely separated from his parents in boarding schools around the world. He was proud of his immediate family of academics and clerics and felt the weight of his ancestry; there was much to live up to. A sense of entitlement was bred into him. He spent his working life as a radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, England, a world-renowned centre for radio-astronomy. His interest was in the reception and processing of the faint signals from the cosmos and he made several important contributions to the field. However he was blighted by the failure of one particular project and his career effectively stalled -- not least because of his difficulty with personal relations with his colleagues. He retired embittered. The book is a frank but sympathetic account of his life written by a friend of a difficult man who experienced (he thought) failure in the face of great expectations. In turn he was arrogant, entertaining, depressive, generous, infuriating, very clever and, just possibly, neuro-divergent.

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