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- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.
- Mysterious
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My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
- Hurt
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I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020