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Athene Donald is a Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she has spent most of her academic life. Her field of research has moved over the years from the study of plastics, to food and other common everyday materials, such as paint and cement, and now mainly concentrates on problems relating to biology. However, many of the basic concepts and theories are common across all these different classes of materials - one of the things that makes the field so interesting.

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Women in Science: Goo and the physics of the everyday stuff that surrounds us, Notebook

Women in Science: Goo and the physics of the everyday stuff that surrounds us

Given recent press coverage, you might be forgiven for thinking that all physicists were interested in was the Higgs Boson. But our research fields extend much further than the ultra-small particles under study at Geneva in the Large Hadron Collider or, at the other extreme, the enormous distances of remote galaxies and stars studied by astrophysicists.

By | Notebook | Monday, 16 July 2012 at 10:34 am

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