Breaking the Mould: Pioneering Women in Science | Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Sabine Hossenfelder and more
89Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
In honour of all the ground breaking work done by scientists around the world, we are releasing a special Highlights video featuring some of the pioneering women in science we’ve had over the years at the Institute of Art and Ideas!
Featuring: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Sabine Hossenfelder, Daphna Joel, Chiara Marletto, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Catherine Heymans, Sara Walker, Natalie Kofler, Renee Fatemi and Gunes Taylor.
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Gunes Taylor
03:25 Natalie Kofler
07:24 Daphna Joel
09:58 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
14:16 Maggie Aderin-Pocock
19:04 Catherine Heymans
24:50 Sabine Hossenfelder
30:31 Renee Fatemi
33:57 Chiara Marletto
40:45 Sara Walker
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell revolutionised astronomy when she discovered pulsars as a graduate student. The world-shifting discovery was awarded the 1974 Nobel prize but, controversially, only her male supervisor and colleague were named in the award. In the face of entrenched sexism, Dame Bell Burnell has since been a pioneer for women in science.
In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in long overdue recognition of her work on pulsars. Dame Bell Burnell donated the whole of the $3 million prize money to help female, minority, and refugee students seeking to become physics researchers.
Daphna Joel is a neuroscientist and senior member of the faculty of the School of Psychological Sciences and the School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses on questions related to brain, sex and gender.
Chiara Marletto is a Junior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Materials Department, where she works with pioneering physicist David Deutsch on the Construtor Theory of Information- the theory that all fundamental laws of nature are expressible as statements of possibility, and explaining how quantum information and classical information are related.
Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray and regular contributor to Forbes. She is known for her popular YouTube channel Science Without The Gobbledygook.
Catherine Heymans is Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute for Astronomy within the University of Edinburgh, based at the Royal Observatory. She is also The Astronomer Royal for Scotland and the first woman to hold the position.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a renowned space scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy and In 2020 was awarded the Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal for her public engagement in physics.
Sara Walker is a famed science communicator, theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life.
Güneş Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Güneş has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, as well as on the Guardian's podcast Science Weekly. In 2018, Güneş was awarded the Crick Public Engagement Prize for her efforts in the public communication of science.
Natalie Kofler is a molecular biologist and the founding director of Editing Nature at Yale University, which aims to direct responsible development of environmental genetic technologies. She specialises in the complexity of gene editing applications that are designed to impact wild species, such as CRISPR-edited mosquitos to prevent malaria transmission.
Renee Fatemi is the simulations manager for the groundbreaking Muon g-2 experiment. As Professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Kentucky, Fatemi is an expect in accelerator-based nuclear and particle physics.
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