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Sir Bernard Lovell's "spark" moment
As a boy Bernard Lovell was more interested in cricket and music than science, that was until he was taken to a lecture about the electric spark given by the eminent physicist Professor A. M. Tyndall, after this formative experience the young Lovell never looked back.
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