Carole Jordan

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Culham Laboratory
Somerville College, Oxford
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorC. W. Allen
Doctoral studentsJohn Adam (1974), Rashpal Gil (1982), Blanca Mendoza (1984), Philip Judge (1985), Graham Harper (1988), Mark Munday (1990), Stefan Weber (1993), Andy Rowe (1996), Debby Phillipides (1996),Neil Griffiths (1996), Andrew McMurry (1997), Tetsuo Amaya (1999), Graemy Smith (2000), Stuard Sim (2002)

Dame Carole Jordan,

astrophysicist, astronomer and academic. Currently, she is Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford[1] and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] From 1994 to 1996, she was President of the Royal Astronomical Society; she was the first woman to hold this appointment.[3] She won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2005;[4] she was only the third female recipient following Caroline Herschel in 1828 and Vera Rubin in 1996.[5] She was head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2004 and 2005 to 2008, and was one of the first female professors in Astronomy in Britain. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 for services to physics and astronomy.[6]

Education

Carole Jordan was educated at

Harrow County Grammar School for Girls[7] and at University College London (BSc 1962; PhD 1965). Her first paper, written while she was still an undergraduate, was on the distortion of lunar craters.[4]

Her PhD studies under C. W. Allen opened up a new field in atomic physics and included identification of iron and other lines in the solar extreme ultra-violet spectrum and the ZETA experiment, early ionisation-balance calculations, development of density-diagnostic methods using the iron lines, calculation of relative element abundances and modelling from emission-measure distributions.[8]

Her first paper on coronal research, "The Relative Abundance of Silicon Iron and Nickel in the Solar Corona" was published in 1965.[9]

Scientific work

Jordan calculated the ionisation balance of elements, including the effects of density-dependent di-electronic recombination, level populations in ions, and combined this with observational results from the

ultra-violet and x-ray spectra of the Sun and of the stars.[10]

Career
During this time, she completed her ionisation-balance calculations and the identification of some
forbidden lines and satellite lines. In 1969, she started to devise methods to obtain the structure of the solar transition region
.

She has published papers on astrophysical plasma spectroscopy and structure and energy balance in cool star coronae.

Dame Carole Jordan has her picture displayed with the National Portrait Gallery as a recognition for her career achievements.[12]

Affiliations

Damehood

Carole Jordan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 17 June 2006.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Carole Jordan". University of Oxford Department of Physics. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Professor Dame Carole Jordan". Somerville College Oxford. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Astronomers in the honours list". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b "PN05/07: ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2005 MEDALS AND AWARDS". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  5. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2005.46439.x
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  6. ^ a b "Queen's Birthday Honours 2006". UCL. 19 June 2006. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Harrow County School for Girls – Famous and not-so-famous Old Girls". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  8. Bibcode:2005Obs...125..294.
  9. ^ "The Relative Abundance of Silicon Iron and Nickel in the Solar Corona". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Role Models Professor Dame Carole Jordan, DBE". Women's Engineering Society. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Symposium in honour of Carole Jordan". 7 August 2011.
  12. ^ "Dame Carole Jordan - National Portrait Gallery". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2023.

External links

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