Ann Marks (24July 19419October 2016) was a British

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teacher and

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Biography

Marks obtained a scholarship and studied at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

, receiving a

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in physics in 1963. She also trained as a Qualified Teacher. She moved to

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

in 1987 to work on the

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a joint research facility situated in Grenoble, France, supported by 22 countries (13 member countries: France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, ...

, before returning to England a few years later. Marks was heavily involved with volunteering for the

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...

(IOP) Women in Physics Committee from 1995. Marks founded the UK Young Woman Physicist Award (now the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize) in 2007. She was also active with the

European Platform of Women Scientists The European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS is an umbrella organisation bringing together networks of women scientists and organisations committed to gender equality in research in all disciplines in Europe 27 and the countries associated to ...

(EPWS) at a similar time. She ran very successful workshops, with the aim of attracting young girls into science. Marks was awarded Membership of the

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(MBE), for "services to Physics" in 2007. Marks often published articles about the status of women in Physics in the United Kingdom. Some of her publications were co-authored with

Gillian Gehring Gillian Anne Gehring (born Gillian Anne Murray, 19 May 1941) is a British academic physicist, and emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield. She was the second woman in the UK to bec ...

Personal life

Marks was married to Neil Marks, with whom she shared the

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in 2013. She was also a

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Awards and honours

* Membership of the

MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

, for “services to Physics”, 2007 *

for distinguished service (jointly with Neil Marks), 2013 *

/Institute of Physics ''Ann Marks memorial lecture and prize'' named in her honour, started in 2017

References

External links

https://epws.org/ann-marks/
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marks, Ann 1941 births 2016 deaths Science communicators Fellows of the Institute of Physics British women academics

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