Named in honor of Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the thirteenth Astronomer Royal, and physics secretary of the Royal Society, London, on the occasion of his retirement. Sir Francis has been professor of Radio Astronomy at Manchester since 1964 and director of the Radio Astronomy Laboratories since 1981. In addition, he was director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1975 and 1981 and served both as secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1964 to 1971 and president from 1975 to 1977. (M 17030) _ _.