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Monthly Public
Lecture
Monday December 11 2006 at 8:00pm Schrodinger Theatre, Physics Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. "Women in Astronomy"By Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University. |
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All Photos Cr:IAU/Lars Holm Nielsen Professor Joceyln Bell Burnell at this Years IAU Conference in Prague, where Pluto was demoted to the status of "Dwarf Planet" "Women in Astronomy" The radio astronomer Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar (stars that release regular bursts of radio waves) in 1967 .Susan Jocelyn Bell (Burnell) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on July 15, 1943. Her father was the architect for the Armagh Observatory, which was close to their home. Her early interest in astronomy was encouraged by the observatory staff. She studied at the Mount School in York, England, from 1956 to 1961. She earned a B.S. in physics at the University of Glasgow in 1965. That same year, she began work on her Ph.D. at Cambridge University. There, under the supervision of Antony Hewish, she constructed and operated a 81.5 megaherz radio telescope. She studied interplanetary scintillation of compact radio sources. Bell Burnell detected the first four pulsars. The term "pulsar" is an abbreviation of pulsating radio star or of rapidly pulsating radio sources. Pulsars represent rotating neutron stars that emit brilliant flashes of electromagnetic radiation at each revolution, like beacons from a lighthouse. She has since played very active role in deloping the science of radio-astronomy and in the world of Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this lecture she will outline the fantastic contribution of women to the world of Astronomy.
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Schrodinger Theatre, Physics Building, Trinity
College, Dublin 2.
Admission: € 5 (€ 3 members and concessions)
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