Maybe Joycelin Bell Burnell? She discovered pulsars.
Possibly also Annie Jump Cannon
Came to post this. May she live long in our memories, and shine like a guiding star for kids and grown-ups.
Astronomy seems to have quite a number of outstanding women. Caroline Herschel comes to mind.
Among many other things, first zonal catalogue of astrometry.
He was the “academic grandfather of Canadian paleontology,” Hans Larsson a paleontologist at McGill University tells The Scientist . “So many of his students and then their students have gone on to create this big critical mass of vertebrate paleontology in Canada. So much so that we organized and created our own society,” the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Aw, jeez – on a related note:
Very local, but a lovely obit:
Very sad to hear this. I first remember him as Gogol’s (Kal Penn) father in The Namesake (2006). I didn’t realize just how young he was then and now. Way too young.
I really enjoyed his performance in In Treatment, too. 
I remember that show being on HBO, but I never watched it. I’ll have to stream it.
I brace myself before opening this thread when I see there are new posts now.
It was one thing to bid a fond adieu to elderly newsworthy people, but now it could be any number of people of any age, all on the same day.
“He didn’t go for titles very much. He was Lord May, Baron of Oxford but he was very unpretentious. Quite a lot of my stories about him are quite rude, in fact. He used to swear a lot.
“He told me one night at dinner that he was the first person in the history of the Royal Society to get a swear word in the minutes. He said not even Isaac Newton achieved that.”
He’s one of those actors that you look forward to seeing even in bad movies.
“Nelson Mandela said he’s setting up an illegal army. [He said], Denis, you’ve got the technical training. You know how to build bridges. Can you blow them up. Will you join? And I said, yes of course.”
:evil_grin:
The great Tony Allen star drummer of so many great recordings. I was just listening to him the other day because of course I was because I’ve listened to Tony Allen all my adult life in different contexts: Fela of course of course, recently as Ginger Baker died and I realised I didn’t know their collaborations, 90s due to French dance music and his collaborations in France, him doing a quick free gig in Dublin in a tiny basement, recent collaborations like with Jeff Mills (afro futurism from two great, great pioneers! Go now!).
Apparently not the virus. Thanks Tony.
