On 12 Jun, 2011 By Anonymous (not verified)
Named in memory of Roderick Oliver Redman (b. 1905, d. 1975), professor of astronomy and longtime director of the University of Cambridge Observatories, and in honour of Russell Ormond Redman (b. 1951), a radio astronomer on the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. The senior Redman established a lifelong association with the DAO when he obtained the observational material for his doctoral thesis there; he became renowned for his superlative observational techniques and designs for astronomical instrumentation.
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