What position at Royal Greenwich Observatory did the wife of Geoffrey Burbidge hold?
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Geoffrey Burbidge Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego. He was married to astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge.
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Margaret Burbidge Eleanor Margaret Burbidge ("née" Peachey), FRS (born August 12, 1919 in Davenport) is a British-born American astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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Jane Maria Strachey Lady Jane Maria Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer. Her father was a British colonial administrator and she later married her father's secretary, Sir Richard Strachey, and ten of their children survived into adulthood. She was an outspoken advocate for the right of women to vote and involved her daughters in her campaigning. She wrote two books for children.
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Jane, Lady Roberts Dame Priscilla Jane Stephanie Roberts, The Hon. Lady Roberts, DCVO (née "Low"; born 4 September 1949) has been the Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle since 1975 and the Royal Librarian since 2002 until her retirement in July 2013.
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock Margaret Ebunoluwa "Maggie" Aderin-Pocock, MBE (born 9 March 1968) is an English space scientist and science educator. She is an Honorary Research Associate in University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy TV programme "The Sky at Night" with Chris Lintott.
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Beatrice Whistler Beatrice Whistler (also known as Beatrix or Trixie; 12 May 1857 – 10 May 1896) was born in Chelsea, London on 12 May 1857. She was the eldest daughter of ten children of the sculptor John Birnie Philip and Frances Black. She studied art in her father's studio and with Edward William Godwin who was an architect-designer. On 4 January 1876 she became the second wife of Edward Godwin. Following the death of Godwin, Beatrice married James McNeill Whistler on 11 August 1888.
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Joan Bakewell Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London.
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Jan Cousteau Janice Cousteau (née Sullivan; 5 April 1939) is the wife of undersea explorer Philippe Cousteau and joined the Cousteau team on 20 expeditions over 12 years serving as cook, photographer, and paramedic among other roles.
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Margaret Jane Benson Margaret Jane Benson (20 October 1859 – 20 June 1936) was an English botanist. Most of her career was spent as a University Professor and head of the Department of Botany at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Her leadership of the newly founded department began in 1893, and in 1927, a botanical laboratory was dedicated in her name. She travelled extensively with Ethel Sargant, a fellow female scientist, collecting specimens, laboratory equipment, and meeting other botanists around the world. Her students included Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan and Netsa Ferguson.
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Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, MBE (30 May 1874 – 9 July 1947) was an English mathematician who undertook pioneering work in the mathematics of aeronautics.
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Nigel Weiss Nigel Oscar Weiss FRS (born 16 December 1936) is an astronomer and mathematician, and leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge.
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Jocelyn Barrow Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow, Mrs Downer, DBE (born 15 April 1929) is the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the BBC and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council.
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Mary Somerville Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was nominated to be jointly the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel.
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Henriette, Lady Abel Smith Dame Henriette, Lady Abel Smith (6 June 1914 – 3 May 2005), was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987.
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Joanne Simpson Joanne Simpson (born Joanne Gerould; March 23, 1923 – March 4, 2010) was the first woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in meteorology. Simpson received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, and did post-doctoral work at Dartmouth College. Simpson was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and taught and researched meteorology at numerous universities as well as the federal government. Simpson contributed to many areas of the atmospheric sciences, particularly in the field of tropical meteorology. She has researched hot towers, hurricanes, the trade winds, air-sea interactions, and helped develop the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).
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Gerald Hawkins Gerald Stanley Hawkins (20 April 1928– 26 May 2003) was a British-born American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of archaeoastronomy. A professor and chair of the astronomy department at Boston University in the United States, in 1965 he published an analysis of Stonehenge in which he was the first to propose its purpose as an ancient astronomical observatory used to predict movements of sun and stars. Archaeologists and other scholars have since demonstrated such sophisticated, complex planning and construction at other prehistoric earthwork sites, such as Cahokia in the United States.
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Josephine Barnes Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (18 August 1912 – 28 December 1999), known professionally as Dr Josephine Barnes, was a leading English obstetrician and gynaecologist. She was the first female president of the British Medical Association, 1979. Barnes was also active in the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign with cancer screening.
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, DBE (née Timpson; 1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.
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Rosa Lee Rosa Mabel Lee (born 1884) was a statistician, the first woman scientist to be employed by the Marine Biological Association and the first woman to work as a government fishery scientist in the United Kingdom.
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Ruth Gregory Ruth Ann Watson Gregory is a British mathematician and physicist, currently Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Durham. Her fields of specialisation are general relativity and cosmology.
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Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (] ; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date. Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also esteemed scientists.
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Frances Farrer The Hon. Dame Frances Margaret Farrer DBE (17 March 1895 – 27 January 1977) was Secretary of the NUSEC and later was named as General Secretary of the Women's Institute (NFWI) in 1929.