After 322 years, royal observatory loses out to Scottish rival

Ehsan Masood

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6638, 105-106

Abstract: london The Royal Greenwich Observatory, currently based in Cambridge, is to close and merge with the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. One hundred jobs will be lost from both sites. British astronomy, however, will gain at least £2.4 million per year.

Date: 1997
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