Image: Dame Carole Jordan
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Description: Dame Carole Jordan (1941–2026), British astrophysicist. Jordan's career was in stellar astrophysics, especially in studying ultraviolet and X-ray spectra of the Sun. She worked in the USA and the UK, working at Oxford University from 1994. She was the first woman to be president of the Royal Astronomical Society (1994–1996), and the third ever woman to receive its Gold Medal (2005). She was made a DBE (Dame of the Order of the British Empire) in 2006.
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