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“share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today.”
FIRST UP my A-level Biology teachers, one of whom was near retirement and lent me a 1960s Penguin book about blood types and inheritance,which for some reason I found fascinating. The other was younger, and had gone into teaching because she couldn't think of anything better to do. A sort of distracted, in it because it's amazing, rather than because we have to get straight A's in our exams. Very cool. (I should point out that most science lessons at our school involved someone trying daring me that I couldn't fit in a tiny cupboard, which I would prove them wrong, then end up locked in aforementioned cupboard for a "hilarious" hour.)
SECOND UP is Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She's fucking awesome. Look her up on Wikipedia, google her, whatever (brief summary of her life and work in the Guardian) - for her PhD she designed and built a radio-telescope with which she discovered the first, second and third pulsars - the paper was published with her supervisor's name first, and he got the nobel prize for science, she didn't. She is famed for taking the snub well, and works to promote women in science.
Interview with Prof Bell Burnell on BBC
Video about pulsars from 1997
FIRST UP my A-level Biology teachers, one of whom was near retirement and lent me a 1960s Penguin book about blood types and inheritance,which for some reason I found fascinating. The other was younger, and had gone into teaching because she couldn't think of anything better to do. A sort of distracted, in it because it's amazing, rather than because we have to get straight A's in our exams. Very cool. (I should point out that most science lessons at our school involved someone trying daring me that I couldn't fit in a tiny cupboard, which I would prove them wrong, then end up locked in aforementioned cupboard for a "hilarious" hour.)
SECOND UP is Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She's fucking awesome. Look her up on Wikipedia, google her, whatever (brief summary of her life and work in the Guardian) - for her PhD she designed and built a radio-telescope with which she discovered the first, second and third pulsars - the paper was published with her supervisor's name first, and he got the nobel prize for science, she didn't. She is famed for taking the snub well, and works to promote women in science.
Interview with Prof Bell Burnell on BBC
Video about pulsars from 1997
