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IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell voted most inspirational living woman scientist of all time

By Lena | Published: July 2, 2009
IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell was voted one of the most inspirational living woman scientists of all time in a current online poll run by the New Scientist. Marie Curie (1854-1923), notably, the first European woman to be awarded a doctorate in science, Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), the chemist who did much of the groundwork for [...]
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Upcoming physics lecture on pulsars by IOP president Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell

By Lena | Published: May 12, 2009
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, IOP President and visiting professor at Oxford University, will be giving a talk on ‘Pulsars and extreme physics’ on Thursday, 11th June 2009 at Northumbria University for anyone interested in physics. Jocelyn has been president of the IOP since October 2008. She has filled a wide range of teaching, research and managerial roles [...]
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