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SUMMARY:Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity - Professor Dick Manchester\, Au
 stralia Telescope Facility\, CSIRO\, Australia
DTSTART:20081029T161500Z
DTEND:20081029T171500Z
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DESCRIPTION:The discovery of pulsars by Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 
 1967 is a perfect example of “serendipity” – the circumstance where 
 one finds something interesting and exciting while looking for something e
 lse.  Over the intervening four decades\, more than 1800 pulsars have been
  discovered and much progress has been made on understanding their propert
 ies.  They have continued to surprise us with a stream of unexpected disco
 veries such as the first binary pulsar and the first millisecond pulsar.  
 Pulsars are wonderful tools for the investigation of a wide range of topic
 s in astronomy and physics.  In this lecture Professor Manchester will dis
 cuss the latest development including high precision tests of general rela
 tivity and prospects for the future.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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