Category Archives: Women in Physics
Stop the ringing – a cure for temporary tinnitus
From gig-goers and iPod owners to construction workers and soldiers, most of us have suffered from temporary tinnitus – continued perception of noise that isn’t there – after a loud event.
Two eighteen year old female physics students and their former physics teacher from Sligo County in North West Ireland have been the first to discover a [...]
IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell voted most inspirational living woman scientist of all time
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 James [...]
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Lack of girls in science continues to be issue
The lack of girls in physics is a serious concern for many parents and teachers. As Tom Brown.com, an independent webguide to private schools, highlights, picking up an Institute of Physics study, “with girls falling behind boys in science and fewer children choosing to study physics in the UK, we face huge challenges in the [...]
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The international life of a jet-setting physicist
I’m putting the finishing touches to my preparations for going away for work next week, and, having cleared the email in-box somewhat, and it being a Friday afternoon, I’ve been thinking about work-related travel.
I’ve been to some pretty cool places for conferences and meetings in my time. Vancouver, New Delhi, Paris, Chicago, Seoul, Geneva, Rome, [...]
Physicist Athene Donald wins Glamour award