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Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Mar 09, 1968 (57 years old) in Islington, London, England, UK

Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock is 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 program The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020, Maggie 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.

Known For

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Would I Lie to You?
Self
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Doctor Who Confidential
Self
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Strangest Things
Self - Space Scientist
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Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Self - Presenter
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I Literally Just Told You
Self - Question Writer
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Alien Files: Reopened
Self - Physicist & Space Scientist
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Last Swim
Self
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The Science of Doctor Who
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Finding Father Christmas
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