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

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

She welcomed Wednesday's ruling, saying she had "pursued all available legal avenues" so as to "preserve the small amount of justice afforded to the Lovell family".

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 area of relatively flat countryside was chosen by pioneering astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell as the perfect place to build an observatory because of its quiet radio environment, far away from interference.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

According to W George Lovell, a geographer at Queen’s University in Ontario, it was “the greatest destruction of lives in human history.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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