05-Oct-2009, 08:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Spitfire
Batu, I wonder if the facility at UCLAN is there because of the influence of Jeremiah Horrocks in the town?
His `Transit of Venus` observation in the 17th century is still one of the world`s greatest astronomical discoveries.
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute launch
(21st February 2009)
The following extract from UCLAN's Press Release might help to show
the importance of the relationship between UCLAN and Jeremiah Horrocks
"The Centre for Astrophysics" will transform into the "Jeremiah
Horrocks Institute for Astrophysics and Supercomputing" (JHI for
short) over the course of 2009. This new institute draws in
researchers making use of high-performance computing in areas as
diverse as soft matter physics, bioinformatics and the structure
of galaxies.
Jeremiah Horrocks was the first person to observe a Transit of
Venus in 1639, at a stroke expanding the estimated size of the
Universe significantly. These observations took place just
outside Preston, where the University of Central Lancashire is
based. 370 years later we are honouring his memory by naming our
new Institute after him.
http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/
Originally posted by Spitfire
Batu, I wonder if the facility at UCLAN is there because of the influence of Jeremiah Horrocks in the town?
His `Transit of Venus` observation in the 17th century is still one of the world`s greatest astronomical discoveries.
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute launch
(21st February 2009)
The following extract from UCLAN's Press Release might help to show
the importance of the relationship between UCLAN and Jeremiah Horrocks
"The Centre for Astrophysics" will transform into the "Jeremiah
Horrocks Institute for Astrophysics and Supercomputing" (JHI for
short) over the course of 2009. This new institute draws in
researchers making use of high-performance computing in areas as
diverse as soft matter physics, bioinformatics and the structure
of galaxies.
Jeremiah Horrocks was the first person to observe a Transit of
Venus in 1639, at a stroke expanding the estimated size of the
Universe significantly. These observations took place just
outside Preston, where the University of Central Lancashire is
based. 370 years later we are honouring his memory by naming our
new Institute after him.
http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/