Rod Davies (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Prof. Rod Davies CBE is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Although retired he still works there regularly. He is the former director of the observatory. His main research interests include the Cosmic Microwave Background and the galactic foreground. He is also a Methodist preacher. Rod Davies was born into a family of sheep farmers in a tiny village in the bush north of Adelaide, South Australia. He got sent to school as a punishment for setting a haystack on fire. He studied Astronomy at Adelaide University. He is currently residing in Cheshire with his wife, in the same town as they have lived in since they moved to Britain in the late 1950s. They have had four and eleven grandchildren.