[meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from the sky: A heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:55:21 +0000
Message-ID: <CAKEL=tAh6dBG9r-6E4C1P=0GRZrMtApTb1HsjXn836t68GXANw_at_mail.gmail.com>

My mistake Doug, Edward Topham was not a Sir. Although i do believe he
was very highly thought of but perhaps not to that degree.

Cheers

Martin

On 10 February 2012 10:24, MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
> "Sir Edward Topham"
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> That's something to see in person! ?Thanks for passing along the link.
>
> Wow - was Topham really knighted? ?I know the king liked him ... but I don't
> think he raised him to that level. ?Especially the way he left dumped Mary
> Wells, who in her time was an actress of such beauty, I'm sure he had a
> terrible reputation and not being much of a knightly gentleman.
>
> Kindest wishes
> Doug
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 4:02 am
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from
> the sky: A heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please see the link below to a webcast of Professor Colin Pillingers
> lecture to the Royal Society recently.
>
> (http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/stones-from-the-sky/)
>
> Professor Pillinger was the recipient of the Michael Faraday prize in
> recognition of his excellence in communicating science. The lecture is
> called 'Stones from the sky - A heaven sent opportunity to talk about
> science' ?For those who dont know about Professor Pillinger, here is a
> lowdown:
>
> 'Colin Pillinger is Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open
> University. His research interests include designing unique
> instruments to analyse extraterrestrial samples. During his forty year
> career he has made more than a thousand contributions to scientific
> literature, and also found time to be one of Britain's foremost
> science communicators, contributing dozens of popular articles in
> newspapers and magazines as well as giving hundreds of public
> lectures. After analysing a number of meteorites from Mars and finding
> tantalising evidence of the existence of life there, he conceived the
> Beagle 2 mission to land on the Red Planet to confirm his discoveries.
> Throughout the project he filled over thirty notebooks recording the
> daily happenings which form the basis of his autobiographical account
> of the mission - "My life on Mars". '
>
> Colin Pillinger is friends with Derek and Katrina Gray, the owners of
> the Wold Cottage and has a particular interest in the Wold Cottage
> meteorite and in Sir Edward Topham who was the owner of the land at
> the time the meteorite fell. The webcast is an hour long but its worth
> watching, a really good intro to the history of the study of
> meteorites from a definite personality in the field.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Goff
> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
> IMCA #3387
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