To commemorate International Women's Day, we celebrate the
life of pioneering radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott.
A recent
Lost Women of Science podcast tells the story of
Ruby Payne-Scott's career, including the challenges faced
by women of her generation in the Australian Public Service.
The guests on this episode of the podcast are
Miller Goss (author of Making Waves: The Story of Ruby Payne-Scott: Australian Pioneer Radio Astronomer),
Sharon Bell (Professor Emeritus at ANU),
Elizabeth Mahony (CSIRO Space and Astronomy),
Fiona Hall (prominent Australian artist and Ruby Payne-Scott’s daughter),
and Brian Schmidt (Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist at ANU).
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