A celebration of women in astronomy

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• Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee
• Tuesday 01 February 2022, 19:30-20:45
• Delivered online via Zoom.

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Talk Abstract

I will describe the careers of several notable female astronomers and look at International Astronomical Union data on women in astronomy worldwide to see what we can learn about the advancement of women in astronomy.

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Speaker Information

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE is an astrophysicist. She was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and has subsequently worked in gamma ray, X-ray, infrared and millimetre wavelength astronomy. She currently holds a Professorial Fellowship in Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and is a Visiting Academic in the University’s Department of Physics.

She was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize (2010) and a Royal Medal (2015) by the Royal Society and also holds major awards from French, Spanish and USA bodies. A member of 7 Academies worldwide, she was the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (as well as of the Institute of Physics).

She is currently Chancellor of the University of Dundee and was previously a Pro Vice Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin. She holds numerous Honorary Doctorates.

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS) series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)
• Chris Davis' list
• Cosmology, Astrophysics and General Relativity
• Delivered online via Zoom
• Guy Emerson's list

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