20 members of the Physics department attended the prestigious Bolton Lecture at the University of Leeds, which this year was given by famous astrophysicist Dame Professor Joceyln Bell Burnell. The Bolton Lecture in Astronomy is held every autumn to local schools and colleges, and aims to bring current developments in Astronomy and Particle Physics to a wider audience. It is named after Scriven Bolton, a local benefactor whose bequest enables the University of Leeds to provide a state-of-the-art observatory for the teaching of practical astronomy to undergraduates.
Dame Burnell discovered pulsars as a PhD student and her work went on to win a Nobel Prize. She spoke about the origins of the universe and how elements formed in the big bang have now been incorporated into human beings meaning that we are all made of star dust – something we have always known about our physics students!
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