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The O 2 Apollo Manchester (known locally as The Apollo and formerly Manchester Apollo and ABC Ardwick) is a concert venue in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England. It is a Grade II listed building , [ 3 ] with a capacity of 3,500 (2,514 standing, 986 seats).
This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England. In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features. [1]
Stuart Olof Agrell (5 March 1913 – 29 January 1996) was an optical mineralogist and a pioneer in applications of the electron microprobe to petrology.His involvement as a principal investigator in the analysis of Moon rocks collected in the Apollo program brought him to the attention of the British media and public.
Manchester is one of the principal cities of the United Kingdom, gaining city status in 1853, thus becoming the first new city in over 300 years since Bristol in 1542. Often regarded as the first industrialised city, [1] Manchester was a city built by the Industrial Revolution and had little pre-medieval history to speak of. Manchester had a ...
The Mechanics' Institute, located at 103 Princess Street, Manchester, England, is notable as the building in which three significant British institutions were founded: the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
Grenville Turner FRS (1 November 1936 – 22 August 2024) was a British geochemist who was a research professor at the University of Manchester. He was one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry . Education
www.research.manchester.ac.uk /portal /katherine.joy.html Katherine Helen Joy FRAS is a professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester . [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Joy has studied lunar samples from the Apollo program [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 4 ] as part of her research on meteorites and lunar science .
Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky, [2] FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS [1] [3] [4] (17 November 1906 – 4 March 1973), [5] was a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the Moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.