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Today's episode is Episode 602. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So let's get

into it. This week I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Emma Chapman. She is an award-winning astrophysicist. She's a Royal Society Research Fellow and lecture based at the

University of Nottingham. She's received many, many commendations and prizes, including the

Royal Society Athena Medal. Her first book was called First Light. And she has a new book out in the UK, the title is

Radio Universe. But here in the U.S., it is called the Echoing Universe, how radio astronomy helps

us see the invisible cosmos. So without any further ado, here she is Dr. Emma Chapman. Well, Emma,

thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. I'm really looking forward to

having a chat. Absolutely. So we're going to be talking about your new book, The Echoing Universe,

how radio astronomy helps us see the invisible cosmos. And like I usually your new book, The Echoing Universe, How Radio Astronomy, Helps Us, Helps Us,

and like I usually do at the very top of the show, before we dive into any sort of specific

content, I like to get a little bit into process. I'm curious about your kind of career trajectory, how you found yourself

in astrophysics, what you studied in school, and if it was sort of like a linear path,

or if there were some twists and turns in there? I'm going to say linear chaotic. I don't even know.

That's a thing. But like I've been on a

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