Passing this on from Dr. Eilish McLoughlin in DCU.
The Institute of Physics in Ireland would like to invite you to attend
one of the lectures given by Professor Jocelyn Bell-Burnell*. Open
University, Milton-Keynes, UK*
Prof. Bell-Burnell is considered the greatest female physicist from
Ireland, having been born and bred in Belfast. She is one of only a
handful of female professors of Physics in the UK. As a PhD student she
made a dramatic discovery of regular signal coming from space. Initially
she jokingly labeled this signal coming as LGM for Little Green Men
which caught the media’s attention at the time. It was later found that
this signal was coming from a “pulsar†which is a rapidly rotating
neutron star. The Nobel prize in physics for this discovery was awarded
in 1974, but controversially Jocelyn did not share in the prize with the
credit going to her research supervisor. She was awarded a CBE in 1999
and an honorary DSc from Queen’s University Belfast in 2002 for services
to astronomy and raising the profile of women in science.
*Prof. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
Open University, Milton-Keynes, UK
Tick, Tick, Tick Pulsating Star, How We Wonder What You Are
*
Thursday 17 February 4.00 pm Dublin City University
Venue: XG22 , Science Building
Admission charge: None.
To rserve a place please email physics@dcu.ie
Albert White MSc FRAS
Chairperson, International Dark Sky Association - Irish Section
www.darksky.ie/
