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The University of Leicester Department of Physics and Astronomy this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its involvement in space science with a three-day international symposium on 6th-8th July.
The 'Exploring the Extreme Universe' symposium will be attended by many former Leicester colleagues, together with current staff, and many other leading space scientists from some of the world's principal space research centres and agencies, to review past and current successes and to discuss future missions. Attendees include the President of the Royal Society, Lord Rees, former NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman and Sir Patrick Moore.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary, the Department of Physics and Astronomy will be holding a symposium on July 6-8 2010.

To mark this occasion we are holding a three-day science symposium linked to the past, current and future science activities of the Leicester Group. The symposium will bring together leading scientists to review recent discoveries and discuss outstanding key issues for the future, but will also provide the opportunity to look back with some historical retrospectives.
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The University of Leicester has a long and record of involvement in space science. Professor Ken Pounds, former Head of Physics and Astronomy and Emeritus Professor of Space Physics, has played a pivotal role in this success story. Here he describes how Leicester came to be in the forefront of space research and charts the milestones in space exploration.
Nations around the world first became aware of the potential of 'space' with the launch of 'Sputnik' in October 1957.
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50 Years of Space Science at the University of Leicester

2010 marks 50 years since the University of Leicester's first space scientist, Professor Ken Pounds, joined the University. Follow the links below to learn about the history of space science at Leicester, and discover some of the work being done today by the internationally renowned Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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