Dr Mike Leggett
FRAS FBIS
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Located in Milton Keynes and willing to travel up to 50 miles.
CV Summary:
- PhD (chemistry) (1986).
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (since 1986).
- Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society (since 1984).
- Founder member (2002) and General Secretary (since 2020) Council Member(since 2011) of the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA); County Co-ordinator for Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Rutland in the SHA Survey of Astronomical History.
- Member of the British Astronomical Association (since 1993), the Planetary Society (since 1996), Society for Popular Astronomy (since 2013), the William Herschel Society (since 2014) and the National Space Society (2016).
- Member of the Milton Keynes Astronomical Society (since 1993)
Lecture topics:
A wide range of lecture titles available on astronomical, history, planetary sciences, astrobiology and astronautics, including:
- Astronomy in the ancient world
- Astronomy in the medieval world
- Astronomical instrumentation before the telescope
- The Wing Dynasty
- Huguenot astronomy
- Bryan Donkin FRS: Engineer, industrialist, astronomer
- Astronomy: From Great War to Cold War
- Some aspects of Buckinghamshire astronomy
- Some aspects of Lincolnshire astronomy
- Some aspects of Norfolk astronomy
- Light and the electromagnetic spectrum
- Infrared astronomy
- Microwave astronomy
- Astronomers’ Guide to the Chemical Elements
- Origin of the Solar System
- Atmospheres of the planets
- Exploration of the Moon
- Exploration of Venus
- Exploration of Mars
- Exploration of Jupiter
- Exploration of Saturn
- Uranus and Neptune
- Pluto and the outer Solar System/New Horizons at Pluto
- Astrobiology
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
- Life on Mars?
- The Apollo years
- Space stations: From Salyut to the International Space Station
- The futures of spaceflight
- Bioethics: An extraterrestrial perspective
Further details of talks available on request to Mike Leggett.
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