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Percival Lawrence Rickerby, an employee of the Royal Observatory (1924-1950s).

© National Maritime Museum, London

Repro ID: H6489
Title: Percival Lawrence Rickerby, an employee of the Royal Observatory (1924-1950s).
Description: Percival Lawrence Rickerby began work at the Observatory as an assistant in 1924. He was promoted to Experimental Officer in 1948 and to Senior Experimental Officer in 1951. He worked under two Astronomers Royal, Frank Dyson and Harold Spencer Jones, and was based in the Magnetic and Meteorological Department. He is photographed using a magnetometer (an instrument for measuring the intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field).
Creator: Frank Dyson
Date: 20th Century

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