Haida Liang
Occupation: Professor of Physics
Research Areas: Imaging and Sensing, Conservation, Science and Art
"I’m working on the boundary between optical imaging and history… physics and history are the two things that I love."
In partnership with the Faulkes Telescope Project
Occupation: Professor of Physics
Research Areas: Imaging and Sensing, Conservation, Science and Art
"I’m working on the boundary between optical imaging and history… physics and history are the two things that I love."
Occupation: Astronomer, Anthropologist and Author
Year born: 1938
Research Areas: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy in the Americas, Mayans
Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Occupation: Historian
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: History of Science, History of Astronomy, Broadcasting
"Historians of astronomy…are… people with a broad and open-minded curiosity about those forces which drove human endeavour in the past."
Occupation: Astronomer, Writer, Broadcaster
Year born: 1923
Research Areas: the Moon, the Planets, Star Catalogues
How many astronauts can you name? Maybe 1 or 2? Well done if you can name more than 5! But did you know more than 500 people from more than 30 countries have been to space?!