LEWISTON – Astronomer R. Bruce Partridge will visit Bates College to give a lecture titled “Photographing the Big Bang” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Partridge is presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy in a visit supported by the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureships Endowment Fund and the American Astronomical Society.

Partridge is the Bettye and Howard Marshall Professor of Natural Sciences at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. His research focuses on cosmic microwave background radiation, galaxy formation, radio astronomy and cosmology. At Haverford, he teaches physics and astronomy courses at the advanced and survey levels, reflecting a strong interest in teaching technical subjects to non-specialists.

Originally from Hawaii, Partridge received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received Fulbright Scholarships to study in Uruguay and Norway in the 1970s and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1988 and 1989.