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Lovell

American  
[lov-uhl] / ˈlɒv əl /

noun

  1. Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913–2012, British astronomer.

  2. a male given name.


Lovell British  
/ ˈlʌvəl /

noun

  1. Sir Bernard. 1913–2012 English radio astronomer; founder (1951) and director of Jodrell Bank

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Joélle Harvey was a luminous Pamina; Josh Lovell a stalwart Tamino, even when the joke was on him.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Originally from Suffolk, Lovell moved to Australia in 2011 where she lived with her two daughters and husband.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The observatory, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is dominated by the enormous Lovell Telescope, a structure that was voted Britain's greatest unsung landmark in 2006.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

The observatory site, chosen by radio astronomy pioneer Sir Bernard Lovell as research base for the University of Manchester in the 1940s, is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The flight was Gemini 7, and the prime crew were Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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