{"id":1785,"date":"2024-05-01T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:26","slug":"trailblazing-astrophysicist-and-champion-of-women-in-science-to-deliver-university-of-leicester-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2024\/05\/01\/trailblazing-astrophysicist-and-champion-of-women-in-science-to-deliver-university-of-leicester-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailblazing astrophysicist and champion of women in science to deliver University of Leicester public lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pulsar discoverer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, has been invited to deliver a keynote public lecture by University Chancellor, and fellow scientist, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as inspiring a new generation of female scientists, Dame Jocelyn has worked hard pushing boundaries to make science a more diverse and inclusive industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The astrophysicist was, therefore, the perfect choice for the second edition of Dame Maggie\u2019s Chancellor\u2019s Distinguished Lecture Series, which takes place on campus, on Tuesday 14 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about this via the <a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/april\/jocelyn-bell\">University of Leicester news article on the topic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the lecture, which runs from 5.30pm to 8pm on Tuesday 14 May, can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/uolevents\/1207635?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reserved via the event website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulsar discoverer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th\u00a0century, has been invited to deliver a keynote public lecture by University Chancellor, and fellow scientist, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. As well as inspiring a new generation of female scientists, Dame Jocelyn has worked hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}