Carole Jordan
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Dame Carole Jordan, DBE, FRS, FRAS, FInstP (born 19 July 1941), is a British physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer and academic. Currently, she is Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford[1] and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] From 1994 to 1996, she was President of the Royal Astronomical Society; she was the first woman to hold this appointment.[3] She won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2005;[4] she was only the third female recipient following Caroline Herschel in 1828 and Vera Rubin in 1996.[5] She was head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2004 and 2005 to 2008, and was one of the first female professors in Astronomy in Britain. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 for services to physics and astronomy.[6]
Carole Jordan | |
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Born | (1941-07-19) 19 July 1941 (age 82) |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University College London |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder Culham Laboratory Somerville College, Oxford University of Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | C. W. Allen |
Doctoral students | John Adam (1974), Rashpal Gil (1982), Blanca Mendoza (1984), Philip Judge (1985), Graham Harper (1988), Mark Munday (1990), Stefan Weber (1993), Andy Rowe (1996), Debby Phillipides (1996),Neil Griffiths (1996), Andrew McMurry (1997), Tetsuo Amaya (1999), Graemy Smith (2000), Stuard Sim (2002) |