Danielle George on electronics

The Life Scientific

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Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Danielle George is a radio frequency engineer from the University of Manchester. She designs amplifiers that have travelled everywhere, from outer space to underground. Becoming a professor aged just 38, she talks to Jim about the challenges of age discrimination and working in a male dominated field. As presenter of last year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, she's passionate about DIY electronics and coding, and how to inspire the UK's next generation of inventors.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.
0:03.6	First broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
0:06.3	I'm Jim Alleili and my mission is to interview
0:09.2	the most fascinating and important scientists alive today and to find out what makes them tick.
0:15.0	Today on the life scientific we're celebrating Ada Lovelace Day,
0:20.0	which marks the achievements of women in science and engineering.
0:23.6	Like Ada herself, my guest today, Professor Danielle George,
0:27.6	became passionate about machines and instrumentation
0:30.3	at an early age.
0:31.6	She went on to become the youngest woman to present the Christmas
0:34.4	lectures at the Royal Institution and the first to do so whilst eight months pregnant.
0:40.2	The theme of her lectures delivered last year was Sparks Will Fly, and Danielle is an advocate
0:45.8	for the power of engineering to change the world.
0:49.2	As professor of radio frequency engineering at the University of Manchester, she
0:53.2	develops equipment that allows us to see out to the furthest reaches of the
0:56.8	universe. But as well as solving mysteries out in space, her pioneering
1:00.8	instruments will soon be buried underground to help farmers monitor their crops.
1:05.8	Her goal, she says, is to help reverse the image crisis facing engineering in the UK.
1:11.5	Danielle George, welcome to the Life Scientific. Thank you very
1:14.0	much for having me. Now in Ada Lovelace's day nearly two centuries ago it was
1:18.6	unusual for a woman to be working in a field as male-dominated as engineering and computing.
1:24.0	Many would say it's not much better now.
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