Dame Athene Donald

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Dame Athene Donald

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
bromide print, March 2010
11 3/4 in. x 9 3/8 in. (300 mm x 237 mm) image size
Purchased, 2011
Photographs Collection
NPG x135636

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  • Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 110 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • 100 Pioneering Women, p. 148 Read entry

    The physicist Dame Athene Donald (b.1953) is a champion of women in science and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Much of her career has been spent researching soft matter and biological physics and she has published widely in this field. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge and, in 2014, became Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. In 2009, she was named a Laureate at the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science and won the Faraday Medal of the Institute of Physics the following year. From 2009 to 2013, Donald chaired the Athena Forum, an independent committee that aims to improve the situation for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine in UK higher education. From 2010 to 2014, she was the University of Cambridge’s Gender Equality Champion. In 2010, she was made a DBE for services to physics, and three years later received a Suffrage Science Award from the Medical Research Council.

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