[ad_1] A British astrophysicist who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century but was overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee, has joined the Royal Society’s male-dominated portrait collection. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a 24-year-old graduate student when in 1967 she discovered a new type …
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[ad_1] The NHS is just one of the two things that keep Britain together as a community. The second is the BBC. During Covid-19 these two national treasures became our driving force. Blacks have been an integral part of the NHS since the 1940s. I am very proud to say …
Read More »Hughes and Heaney’s “Treasures” of Invisible Scriptures Found | Books
[ad_1] A “treasure trove” of invisible poems and letters by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and artist Barrie Cooke revealed the depth of a close three-way friendship that a Cambridge academic described as a “rough, wild equivalent of the Bloomsbury group. “. Cooke, who died in 2014, was one of Ireland’s …
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