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Rosalind Franklin Award
The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award was established in 2003 and is awarded annually by the Royal Society to an individual for outstanding work in any field of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to support the promotion of women in STEM. It is named in honour of Rosalind Franklin and initially funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and subsequently the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) as part of its efforts to promote women in STEM. Women are a significantly underrepresented group in STEM making up less than 9% of the United Kingdom's full-time and part-time Professors in Science. The award consists of a medal and a grant of £30,000, and the recipient delivers a lecture as part of the Society's public lecture series, some of which are available on YouTube. Laureates * 2003: Susan Gibson on ''Make me a molecule''. Awarded presented by Patricia Hewitt, serving Minister for Women and Equalities. * 2004: Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognized during her life, for which she has been variously referred to as the "wronged heroine", the "dark lady of DNA", the "forgotten heroine", a "feminist icon", and the "Sylvia Plath of molecular biology". She graduated in 1941 with a degree in natural sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge, and then enrolled for a PhD in physical chemistry under Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, the 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Disappointed by Norrish's lack of enthusiasm, she took up a research position under the British Coal Utilisation Research Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Davies
Christine Tullis Hunter Davies (born 1959) is a professor of Physics at the University of Glasgow. Education Davies was educated Colchester County High School for Girls and the University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge. She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981 in physics with theoretical physics followed by a PhD in 1984 for research on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the Drell–Yan process while working in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Research and career Davies' research investigates the strong interaction and the solution of quantum chromodynamics using a numerical method known as Lattice QCD. During her career she has held academic appointments at the University of Glasgow, CERN, Cornell University, Ohio State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Particle Physics and Astronomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamsin Mather
Tamsin Alice Mather (born 1976) is a British Professor of Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. She studies volcanic processes and their impacts on the Earth's environment and has appeared on the television and radio. Education Mather was born in Bristol on 15 December 1976, the daughter of William Mather and Felicity Mather. She was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1999, a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004. As an undergraduate she studied the Natural Sciences Tripos before switching to the History and Philosophy of Science for her MPhil (in the same MPhil class as Helen Macdonald) and Katherine Angel). She spent a year working abroad before returning to science for her PhD which was completed in the Department of Earth Sciences and investigated the chemistry of volcanic plumes in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essi Viding
Essi Maria Viding FBA FMedSci is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at University College London in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, and an associate of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Viding's research focuses on development of disruptive behaviour disorders, as well as children and young people's mental health problems more broadly. She uses cognitive experimental measures, brain imaging and genetically informative study designs in her work. Education Viding was educated at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2004 for research supervised by Francesca Happé. She did her postdoctoral research under the supervision of Robert Plomin. Awards and honours Viding was the 2011 winner of the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal, and received the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award was established in 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Dunkley
Joanna Dunkley is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Education Dunkley was educated at North London Collegiate School and the University of Cambridge where she graduated in 2001 with a Master of Science (MSci) degree in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics). She was an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She moved to Oxford for postgraduate study where she awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 for research supervised by Pedro G. Ferreira where she was a postgraduate student of Magdalen College, Oxford. Research and career Her research is in cosmology, studying the chronology of the universe using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telesco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Carpenter
Lucy Jane Carpenter (born 21 October 1969) is professor of physical chemistry at the University of York and director of the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO). One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: Lucy Carpenter Education Carpenter graduated with a BSc in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1991 followed by a PhD in atmospheric chemistry at the University of East Anglia supervised by Stuart Penkett and awarded in 1996. Research and career Her group studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, organic carbon, and reactive nitrogen. Her work on oceanic and atmospheric halogens has established this chemistry as an important component of tropospheric ozone cycling and makes use of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GCMS). She helped establish the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory, one of a few dozen World Meteorological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel McKendry
Rachel Anne McKendry is a British chemist. She is Director of i-sense, a UK-based interdisciplinary research collaboration developing early warning sensing systems for infectious diseases, and was part of the UK's Cross Council Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance. McKendry is also Professor of Biomedical Nanoscience at University College London, holding a joint appointment in the Division of Medicine and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Early life and education McKendry studied chemistry at Durham University (Trevelyan College, Durham, Trevelyan College), graduating in 1994. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and won a Girton College, Cambridge Research Fellowship in 1998. Career and research After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, McKendry returned to the UK to take up a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, and to work at University College London. McKendry leads an interdisciplinar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at University College London Sarah Jayne Blakemore's Education Blakemore was educated at Oxford High School and St John's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Experimental psychology in 1996. She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith. Research and career After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2004–2007) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2007–2013) at UCL. She is actively involved in increasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly L
Polly is a given name, most often feminine, which originated as a variant of Molly (a diminutive of Mary). Polly may also be a short form of names such as Polina, Polona, Paula or Paulina. People named or nicknamed Polly Female *Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, peace activist and inventor of the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance, who was also known as Polly Jacob and Polly Peabody *Mary Jefferson Eppes (1778–1804), a daughter of Thomas Jefferson, known as Polly during her childhood * Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols (1845–1888), a victim of the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper *PJ Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter *Polly Adams (born 1939), English actress *Polly Adler (1900–1962), Russian-born American madam and author *Polly Apfelbaum (born 1955), American contemporary visual artist *Polly Arnold (born 1972), British academic *Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician *Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Happé
Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happé (born 1967) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. Her research concerns autism spectrum conditions, specifically the understanding social cognitive processes in these conditions. Personal life and education Happé has stated that her grandfather worked as a scientist for Technicolor, and "made some real innovations" and that her parents always encouraged her to "ask questions". Happé read Experimental Psychology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in the mid-1980s and was inspired about autism by the lectures she attended as an undergraduate. Through her tutor she was able to join a research project led by Neil O'Connor and Beate Hermelin about autism during a summer vacation. She planned to take a PhD at Oxford, but was directed to meet Uta Frith. This led to a change in the cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Blundell
Katherine Mary Blundell is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary research fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Previously, she held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Balliol College, Oxford. Education Blundell was educated at the University of Cambridge where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a PhD in 1995 for research on radio galaxies and quasars. Research and career Blundell's research investigates the physics of active galaxies – such as quasars. She also studies objects in the Milky Way such as microquasars which produce astrophysical jets of plasma that emit radio waves and move at speeds close to the speed of light. Blundell is founder of the Global Jet Watch (GJW) project, which records spectroscopic measurements of microquasars such as SS 433. The project uses five Ritchey–Chrétien telescopes separated in long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965) is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions. Gupta is also a novelist and a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award. Early life and education Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, to Dhruba and Minati Gupta. She trained in biology, and was awarded a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. In 1992 she obtained her PhD from Imperial College London for a thesis on the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. Career and research Pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
