Jo Dunkley: This Is Our Universe (#168)

Jo Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at
Princeton University. ​Her research is in cosmology, studying the
origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the
Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. She's also
a member of the Rubin Observatory's Dark Energy Science
Collaboration. ​Professor Dunkley has been awarded the Maxwell
Medal, the Rosalind Franklin award, and the New Horizons prize for
her work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, and she shared the
Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP team. In her
thrilling new guide to our Universe and how it works OUR UNIVERSE,
Professor Dunkley reveals how it only becomes more beautiful and
exciting the more we discover about it. With warmth and clarity,
Dunkley takes us from the very basics - why the Earth orbits the
Sun, and how our Moon works - right up to massive, strange
phenomena like superclusters, quasars, and the geometry of
spacetime. As she does so, Dunkley unfurls the history of
humankind's heroic journey to understand the history and structure
of the cosmos, revealing the extraordinary, little-known stories of
astronomy pioneers including Williamina Fleming, Vera Rubin and
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