Lucie Green facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Lucie Green
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Green talking at Bright Club in London in November 2011
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Lucinda Green
1974/1975 (age 50–51) Bedfordshire, England, UK
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| Education | Dame Alice Harpur School |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex University College London |
| Occupation | Science Communicator |
| Employer | Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
| Television | Presenter, The Sky at Night |
| Board member of | European Solar Physics Division of the European Physical Society Science Museum |
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Matthew Parker
(m. 2014) |
| Awards | Kohn Award (2009) Suffrage Science award (2015) Meitner Medal (2017) |
Lucinda "Lucie" Green is a British scientist. She is known for studying the Sun and for explaining science to the public. She was born in Bedfordshire, England.
Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics. She works at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL). This lab is part of University College London (UCL). She helps run MSSL's programs that teach the public about science. She also advises the Science Museum. In 2013, she became the first female presenter of the TV show The Sky at Night.
Her main research is about the Sun's atmosphere. She studies huge explosions from the Sun called coronal mass ejections. She also looks at how the Sun's magnetic field changes. These changes can cause the explosions.
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Early Life and School
Lucie Green grew up in Bedfordshire, England. She went to Dame Alice Harpur School. There, she earned good grades in many subjects. After school, she first studied art. Later, she decided to study physics.
She earned a degree in physics with astrophysics from the University of Sussex. In 2002, she finished her PhD. Her PhD was in solar physics, which is the study of the Sun. She completed it at the MSSL.
Lucie Green often visits her old school. She talks to students about her research. Her former physics teacher, Fiona Clements, said Lucie is a great role model. She encourages young women to get into science.
Lucie shared that she always liked physics. She enjoyed solving problems and finding answers. She didn't plan to be a space scientist at first. She wasn't even very interested in astronomy as a hobby.
Career in Science
After getting her PhD, Lucie Green worked at Cardiff University. She helped with the Faulkes Telescope Project. This project lets schools use powerful telescopes far away. These telescopes are in Hawaii and Australia. Students can control them from their classrooms.
Today, Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics at MSSL. She studies the magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere. Sometimes, these fields erupt and cause coronal mass ejections. She researches how these eruptions affect Earth's magnetic field. This helps us understand what it means for people on Earth.
She also works to share science with everyone. She helps run MSSL's public programs.
Studying the Sun with Solar Orbiter
Lucie Green is helping with the Solar Orbiter mission. This is a special satellite built by the ESA. Its job is to get very close to the Sun. It will take detailed pictures and measurements.
The mission aims to help scientists understand the Sun better. They want to learn about its behavior and the solar wind. The solar wind is a stream of particles from the Sun. This mission will help us understand the Sun's magnetic field.
On TV and Radio
Lucie Green often appears on TV and radio shows. She is well-known for presenting The Sky at Night. She has also been on Stargazing Live, Stardate, Horizon, and The One Show.
On the radio, she has been on The Infinite Monkey Cage, Saturday Live, and PM. She also appeared on Material World and Newshour.
Between 2004 and 2005, she co-presented Stardate shows. For example, she helped explain when the Huygens probe landed on Titan, a moon of Saturn. She also covered when NASA crashed a probe into comet Tempel 1. This helped scientists learn about the Solar System's beginnings.
Since 2010, she has been a part of Stargazing Live. She has also discussed topics like parallel universes on The Infinite Monkey Cage. In 2013, she hosted her own radio show called Solar Max. It explained how the Sun's emissions can affect Earth's magnetic field.
Personal Life
When asked about her love for space science, Lucie Green shared a fun story. As a child, her parents joked she would be an astrophysicist. She agreed, thinking it sounded important. But secretly, she wanted to care for animals. She even stayed up all night feeding worms to injured birds!
In 2014, Lucie Green married Matt Parker. He is a stand-up comedian and also talks about math. Their wedding rings were made from meteoric iron, which comes from meteorites.
Awards and Recognition
In 2005, Lucie Green was part of a team that won an award. It was for a TV show about the transit of Venus. This show let viewers measure the distance from the Sun to Earth.
She has won awards for sharing science with the public. In 2009, she received the Royal Society's Kohn Award. This award recognized her great work in getting many different people interested in science. It also honored her for encouraging others in her department to share science.
In 2010, The Times newspaper named her one of the top ten science educators under 40 in the UK.
In 2015, a sculpture of Lucie Green was shown at the Royal Society in London. This happened at an event celebrating women in science writing. The same year, she also received a Suffrage Science award. In 2017, she won the Lise Meitner Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics.
See also
In Spanish: Lucie Green para niños
