Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Lectures and other activities in Tasmania (the Abstract for the lectures is below):
Hobart:
10 May, 8pm, "Cosmic explosions and the creation of the elements"
Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Physics Building,
University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus, Hobart.
Inquiries: Physics Secretary ph. 03 6226 2401
Launceston:
12 May, 8pm, "Cosmic explosions and the creation of the elements"
Queen Victoria Museum Theatrette, Wellington Street, Launceston.
Inquiries: Physics Secretary ph. 03 6226 2401 or Queen Victoria Museum
and Art Gallery,
ph. 03 63233777, Martin George (e-mail: martin@qvmag.tased.edu.au)
Other activities:
Professor Bell Burnell also gave a Seminar
on Cygnus X-3 in Physics and a lecture
on pulsars for Physics 1 students in Hobart.
She is an active Quaker and visited The Friends School in Hobart.
Biography:
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell, as
a person?
Scientific
biographical details on Professor Bell Burnell are given on the AIP's
NSW Web site. Web users may also point to
"My interview with S.J. Bell" (http://www.nrao.edu/~kweather/bell.html)
and to
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Burnell,_Jocelyn_Bell@841234567.html)
COSMIC EXPLOSIONS AND THE CREATION OF THE ELEMENTS
(ATOMS FROM SPACE: YOU ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF!)
What kinds of atoms make up the molecules that make up the cells that
make our bodies? Where did these atoms come from, and how did they get
to be in our bodies? Life on Earth depends on the death of stars as well
as on the Big Bang that created the Universe. There is star dust in your
veins, and in an ultimate and intimate way we are children of the stars.
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