New Logo and Identity for Jodrell Bank by Johnson Banks
Established in 1945, Jodrell Bank is the name of a site in Cheshire, England, owned by the University of Manchester that was first used as a botany field station. With the arrival of Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, an English physicist and radio astronomer, who became its first director in 1945 (and remained as such until 1980), the site began its development as a world-leading science research institute and observatory. The site is now home to the Lovell Telescope, the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world with a diameter of 250 ft (76 m), along with the more modest Mark II (25m) and the appropriately named 7m telescopes. In 2019, Jodrell Bank was “inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage Site list in 2019 in recognition of its internationally significance science