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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

From pulsars and fast radio bursts to gravitational waves and beyond: a family quest for Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer

(Courtesy: ESO/M Kornmesser)
07 May 2024

Astrophysicists Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer talk to Sidney Perkowitz about everything from their pioneering pulsar research to building a life together and eventually winning the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Two people wearing red hard hats stood on a platform overlooking a telescope
High flyers Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer, astrophysicists based at West Virginia University, have used the Green Bank Observatory to conduct some of their research. (Courtesy: WVU Photo/Scott Lituchy)
Most physicists dream of making new discoveries that expand what we know about the universe, but the

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Sidney Perkowitz is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, US. His books include Science Sketches: the Universe From Different Angles, and Physics: a Very Short Introduction. His writing recently received the Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics for “bridging the physics community to the arts and humanities”
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