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Little Atoms 434 - Science and the City with Laurie Winkless
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Laurie Winkless is a physicist and writer, currently based in London.
Following a degree at Trinity College Dublin, a placement at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, and a masters in Space Science at UCL, Laurie worked at the National Physical Laboratory, specialising in materials.
Laurie has been communicating science to the public for more than a decade, working with schools and universities, the Royal Society, Forbes, and the Naked Scientists, amongst others.
She's given TEDx talks, hung out with astronauts, and appeared in The Times magazine as a leading light in STEM.
Science and the City is her first book
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