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Margaret Aderin-pocock

Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocockis a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023.

Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television programme The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020, she was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in physics.

She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.

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