Today is Ada Lovelace Day when you are asked to blog about a woman in science. Last year I blogged Lalla Selma but this year I am going to blog someone nearer to home; Sweetheart.
In a month when it was announced that only 20% of A level physics students are women ,she was one. She then went to University and took 3 degrees in Material Science, an engineering subject, so she is now the family doctor, although not a medical one. She then eschewed academic life for industry and took herself of to the High Peak to make bricks. Not your everyday bricks but very high tech bricks to line kilns and furnaces.
As she manages to combine an interesting and technical job with trips abroad for work, holidays on 5 continents, frequent trips to pop concerts and festivals, and a doomed but enthusiastic support for Aston Villa, together with time just to chill, listen to music and drink cider or cocktails, she is probably exactly the role model needed for young women half her age making their A level choices and wondering if Physics is a choice for girls.
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