By Samia Bouzid, Carol Sutton Lewis & the Lost Women of Science Initiative
| Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981) Image Credit: Hall family collection |
Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy. By scanning the skies for radio waves instead of the light waves that we can see with our eyes, Payne-Scott and her colleagues opened a new window into the universe and transformed the way we explore it. But to keep her job as a woman working for the Australian government in the 1940s, Payne-Scott had to keep a pretty big secret.
Read more and listen to the podcast at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-star-of-radio-astronomy/
Learn more about Ruby’s contributions at
Radar and the birth of radio astronomy in Australia at Collaroy Plateau