The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transpla….

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience a….

In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from ….

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939..

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself..

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children..

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College..

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John..

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy..