Archive for the “Famous Irish Scientists” Category

So last time we talked about Ernest Walton the only Irish Winner of the Nobel prize for physics. But there is another Irish person who in the world of science is known nearly more for not winning the prize then her pioneering work that lead to a Nobel Prize. Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Born in Belfast [...]

Science in Ireland is not something that gets much coverage compared to the Arts that fill much of the Daily News papers and get supplements in the papers every week. Some people would put this down to Ireland not being a big science nation while being the nation of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats we seen [...]