Hedy Lemarr
Learn about Hedy Lamarr’s career as a Hollywood film star and as an inventor of a very useful radio guidance system at the beginning of world war II. The basis of this invention is still used in Bluetooth and WI-FI even today!
(Video made by Tara Ryan)
Marie Curie
Learn about Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie who did pioneering work on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
(Video made by Niamh Hickey)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Learn about the Northern Irish physicist, Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s work on astrophysics and how she discovered the first radio pulsar – a spinning neutron star.
Merritt Moore
Learn about Dr. Merritt Moore and how she has managed to have a career as a professional ballet dancer and as an academic quantum physicist.
Sarafina Nance
Learn about Sarafina El-Badry Nance, an American science communicator, astrophysicist and Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on supernovae and their applications to cosmology.