Emma Chapman
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Emma Chapman

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Emma Chapman is a Royal Society research fellow and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, based at the University of Nottingham. She is among the world's leading researchers in search of the first stars to exist in our Universe, 13 billion years ago, and she is involved in both the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands and the forthcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Australia, a telescope that will eventually consist of a million antennas pointing skywards in the desert. Emma has been the recipient of multiple commendations and prizes, the most recent of which was both the 2018 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship and STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, two of the most prestigious science fellowships in the UK. She won the Institute of Physics Jocelyn Bell Burnell Prize in 2014, and was runner-up for the UK L'Oreal Women in Science award in 2017. In 2018 she was also the recipient of the Royal Society Athena Medal. Emma is a respected public commentator on astrophysical matters, contributing to the Guardian, appearing on BBC radio and regularly speaking at public events. Among others, she has spoken at Cheltenham Science Festival, the European Open Science Forum and at New Scientist Live. Twitter: @DrEOChapman Website: https://dr-emma-chapman.com/
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    • First Light

    • Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
    • By: Emma Chapman
    • Narrated by: Emma Chapman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-2020
    • Language: English
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