26/11/2025
I recently had the pleasure of attending a public conversation at Sydney Observatory between the revered British Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and two young scientists, CSIRO researcher Kushi Daag, and Sydney University PhD candidate in Astrophysics, Nana Salama. The event was hosted by Sydney City Skywatchers. As the promo for this event tells us, "Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars in 1967 while she was a postgraduate student carrying out research at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory with Antony Hewish. She became the first female president of both the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and helped set up the Athena Swan program to advance female participation in science. In 2018, she was awarded the $3m Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for 'fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and a lifetime of inspiring leadership in the scientific community'." Thank you, Sydney City Skywatchers.
