posted 09-19-2005 05:16 AM            

He was ESRO Director in late 60's and early 70'2 and was famous for his work on Black Holes.

I met him very,very briefly at a space talk I did at Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge way way back in early 70's.

posted 09-19-2005 12:25 PM               

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Originally posted by spaceuk:
...was famous for his work on Black Holes.

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What sort of employment opportunies exist on black holes? I would expect that the work environment would eliminate chances for upward mobility. One long perpetual crunch period.

posted 09-19-2005 02:52 PM               

When I was 17 I had the honour of attending a 2 week series of lectures on Physics at the University of Sydney (a big deal for a boy who grew up on a pig farm in rural New Zealand). Sir Herman Bondi was the keynote speaker at this conference.

He was a true academic, great thinker, and a loss to the scientific community at large.