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Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore CBE, FRS, FRAS (4 March 19239 December 2012)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Patrick Moore dies aged 89 )〕 was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC iPlayer - Sir Patrick Moore: Astronomer, Broadcaster and Eccentric )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Patrick Moore obituary )〕 Moore was president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), author of over 70 books on astronomy, and presenter of the world's longest-running television series with the same original presenter, the BBC's ''The Sky at Night''. As an amateur astronomer, he became known as a specialist in Moon observation and for creating the Caldwell catalogue. Idiosyncrasies such as his rapid diction and monocle made him a popular and instantly recognisable figure on British television. Moore was also a self-taught xylophone, glockenspiel player and pianist, as well as an accomplished composer. He was a former amateur cricketer, golfer and chess player. In addition to many popular science books, he wrote numerous works of fiction. Moore was an opponent of fox hunting, an outspoken critic of the European Union, supporter of the UK Independence Party and served as chairman of the short-lived anti-immigration United Country Party. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He never married or had children. ==Early life== Moore was born in Pinner, Middlesex on 4 March 1923 to Capt. Charles Trachsel Caldwell-Moore MC (died 1947) and Gertrude (née White) (died 1981).〔 His family moved to Bognor Regis, and subsequently to East Grinstead where he spent his childhood. His youth was marked by heart problems, which left him in poor health and he was educated at home by private tutors.〔 He developed an interest in astronomy at the age of six and joined the British Astronomical Association at the age of eleven. He was invited to run a small observatory in East Grinstead at the age of 14, after his mentor – who ran the observatory – was killed in a road accident. At the age of 16 he began wearing a monocle after an oculist told him his right eye was weaker than his left. Three years later, he began wearing a full set of dentures. During World War II, Moore joined the Home Guard in East Grinstead where his father had been elected platoon commander.〔Mobberley, Martin (2013), ''It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!: A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore'', Springer; ISBN 978-3319006086 (p. 21)〕 Despite recounting in his autobiography that he had lied about his age to join the Royal Air Force in 1940 at age 16, records show that he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in December 1941 at age 18 and was not called up for service until July 1942 as an Aircraftman, 2nd Class.〔Mobberley, pp. 23-24〕 After basic training at various RAF bases in England, he went to Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and completed training at RAF Moncton in New Brunswick as a navigator and pilot.〔Mobberley, pp. 30-33〕 During his time in Canada, he met Albert Einstein and Orville Wright while on leave in New York. Returning to England in June 1944, he was commissioned as a Pilot officer and was posted to RAF Millom in Cumbria, where he was a navigator in the crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber, engaged in maritime patrolling and bombing missions to mainland Europe.〔Mobberley, p. 33〕 After the end of hostilities, Moore became an adjutant and then an Area Meteorological Officer, finally demobilized in October 1945 with the rank of Flying officer.〔Mobberley, p. 39〕 The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fiancée Lorna, a nurse, was killed in London in 1943 by a bomb which struck her ambulance. Moore subsequently remarked that he never married because "there was no one else for me ... second best is no good for me ... I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be." In his autobiography he said that after sixty years he still thought about her, and because of her death "if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down." Moore said he was "exceptionally close" to his mother Gertrude,〔 a talented artist who shared his Selsey home, which was decorated with her paintings of "bogeys" – little friendly aliens – which she produced and sent out annually as the Moores' Christmas cards. Moore wrote the foreword for his mother's 1974 book, ''Mrs Moore In Space''.〔Moore, Gertrude L. (1974), ''Mrs Moore In Space'', Cassell and Co Ltd; ISBN 0-304-29426-8〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Moore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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