Polishing the stars for 30 years

April 4th, 2022

Parkes Phoenix, Other, 01/04/2022
Tom Lees can clearly remember watching the moon landing on TV when he was seven, but never thought he would end up working at The Dish for 30 years! The CSIRO staff gave him a beautiful farewell last Thursday. Farming was going to be his life, but at age 41 he applied for his very first job and for the next 30 years Tom Lees immersed himself in the world of astronomy.

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