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In 1952, when my Trinity Fellowship had run its course, a very nice gentleman, Sir Harold Spencer-Jones, the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, offered me the job of his Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. This was a great honor, after so short a career in astronomy, to be offered such a position by the most prominent astronomer in the UK. I think I would have preferred to stay in Cambridge, but, as they say, this was an offer I could not turn down. And so once again, I found myself working for the Admiralty, which was responsible for the Royal Observatory, but now I had the illustrious title Senior Principal Scientific Officer.
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Gold, T. (2012). Appointment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. In: Mitton, S. (eds) Taking the Back off the Watch. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27588-3_5
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