Dr Stephen Taylor talks about his role in finding shock waves from colliding galaxies ✨
One of the groups that made the discovery is the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Collaboration, which is chaired by Northern Ireland native Dr Stephen Taylor.
He continued his education at Wallace High School in his home town of Lisburn and his passion for science, he says, never left him. While at Oxford, he had the opportunity to attend a talk by Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell who discovered pulsars while a grad student at Cambridge. "I think it's really nice that Northern Irish people are on both ends of this - because I certainly didn't hear accents like mine giving these kind of science interviews or talks," he said.Dr Taylor then went on to do his undergraduate degree at Oxford, followed by a PhD at Cambridge looking at gravitational waves.
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