| | Canisius College - Canisius College - Series Four Courses - Dr. Fred Watson |
 | | Fred’s first job was as an optical physicist with the telescope building firm of Sir Howard Grubb Parsons and Co. Ltd., of Newcastle upon Tyne, now sadly no longer in existence. |
 | | He also worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux and Cambridge (in the 1070s and 1990s) and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (in the 1970s and 1980s). |
 | | These jobs took Fred to telescopes in Hawaii and the Canary Islands, as well as to a new life in Australia during the early 1980s. |
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