New Honorary President
The Soko Fund is honoured to announce that Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS, Britain’s most distinguished woman scientist, has agreed to become the first Honorary President of the Soko Fund. Her appointment will run for four years from 1st June 2016.
Dame Jocelyn is an astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student, she discovered the first radio pulsars while studying under Antony Hewish. Her discovery made a key contribution to the Nobel Prize in Physics that Hewish later shared with Martin Ryle. Dame Jocelyn has been President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and President of the Institute of Physics. In March 2013 she became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and in 2014, the first woman since its foundation (in 1785) to be elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Dame Jocelyn is an astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student, she discovered the first radio pulsars while studying under Antony Hewish. Her discovery made a key contribution to the Nobel Prize in Physics that Hewish later shared with Martin Ryle. Dame Jocelyn has been President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and President of the Institute of Physics. In March 2013 she became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and in 2014, the first woman since its foundation (in 1785) to be elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.