Question: through your work have you every come across anyone famous

Laura Tobin answered on 11 Nov 2014:

I’ve met famous people but they are usually famous scientist or engineers like Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She was the first person to discovered the first radio pulsars when she was a postgraduate student. At the time they didn’t know what the strange radio signals were so it was joked that it was LGM – Little Green Men! Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emits radiation as intense beams from the pulsar’s magnetic poles. Unfortunately she was excluded from the Nobel Prize in Physics when her work was awarded, her supervisor shared the award. She is a really lovely person.

I’ve also met two astronauts too, Chris Hadfield and Dr. Mae Jemison. I thought it was so cool that they’ve been to space and lived there for a bit. I was a little bit jealous.