Wartime Training Memories of Paignton From Most-Recognisable Face in British Astronomy
Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › September 18, 2009
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IF you were to picture the archetypal British eccentric Sir Patrick Moore might spring to mind.
The monocled star-gazer is synonymous with all things out of this world -- and not just in astronomical sense.See the full content of this document
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Wartime Training Memories of Paignton From Most-Recognisable Face in British Astronomy
A roll-call of some of the characters the 86 year old has met reads almost like a time-traveller's guide to the legends of the 21st century.
"I played the piano with Albert Einstein," he said. The revelation that he'd met the physics genius casually rolled off the tongue of the famous astronomer when I met him at a book signing in Paignton.Sir Patrick was in the resort launching the paperback version of best-selling book Bang -- The Complete History of the Univer...See the full content of this document
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