Girls and women have made huge impacts in the science of astronomy and space exploration. Today, we continue our “Star Girls” blogs with a jump forward to the mid-twentieth century and a figure that many may know from the movie Hidden Figures. Decades...
Girls and women have made huge impacts in the science of astronomy and space exploration. Today, we continue our “Star Girls” blogs with a look at another of the “Harvard Computers” of the late nineteenth century. Working alongside Annie Jump...
Girls and women have made huge impacts in the science of astronomy and space exploration. This field combines mathematics, physics and chemistry to explain the origin and evolution of celestial objects and phenomena. This includes everything from planets, moons, and...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who has been credited with one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century. She had a tough time at college, being the only woman in a class of 49 men. She said in an interview in the Belfast...
For years, the efforts of thousands of codebreakers working in small huts in the grounds of a large mansion somewhere in Buckinghamshire was kept as one of the biggest secrets of the Second World War. The most famous figure is the great Alan Turing. Without him, the...
As we draw to the end of another year, it is hard not to reflect on the past twelve months. It has certainly been a year of landmark anniversaries. We have marked the 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, 350 years since the Great Fire of London, and remembered...
