A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield

Update: 2023-01-18

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Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.

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Professor Michael Merrifield

Mike's Twitter

Mike Merrifield Video Playlist

Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike

Deep Sky Videos

Messier Objects Playlist

Ralph Merrifield

Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon

Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield

Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper

And here is the published version

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With thanks to SLMath

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