(Source: British Interplanetary Society)

7 - 8.30 pm, 13 October 2010
27/29 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1SZ

Doug Millard, Science Museum

The telescopes and devices now available to the casual astronomer work mainly in the visible part of the spectrum. The more extreme wavelengths and frequencies – radio, microwave, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma – remain the preserve of the professional astronomer and space scientist so come along for a swift history of what they have achieved in Multi-spectral Britain.

Biography
Doug Millard graduated in Environmental Sciences at the University of Warwick in 1981. He qualified as a secondary science teacher in 1983 and then joined the Education Department of the Science Museum in London in 1985. Between 1987 and 1991 he curated the chemical industry, gas, plastics and space technology collections. In 1992 he managed the Museum’s main collections’ store and then coordinated the procurement and installation of the Museum’s new computer network. In 1994 he returned to curatorial work and is now Senior Curator for the Information, Communications and Space Technology collections. He has produced many space exhibitions, written articles, papers and books including a history of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle and its engines, lectured widely and appeared on television and radio. In 2006 he gained his MSc in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London and is currently working on a major gallery redevelopment programme at the Museum.