Rachael Padman was born on 1954 and is an Australian physics lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England.
17 Facts About Rachael Padman
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From Melbourne, Padman was a graduate in electrical engineering from Monash University, Australia, and specialised in radio astronomy.
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Rachael Padman is mainly involved in administrative works in teaching.
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Rachael Padman received opposition from some people, who argued, unsuccessfully, that Padman should not be made a Fellow as she was assigned male at birth.
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Rachael Padman was born in Melbourne, in 1954, and attended Melbourne High School in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.
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Rachael Padman was the school cadet captain and won the rifle-shooting prize for two consecutive years.
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Rachael Padman obtained a first degree in electrical engineering from Monash University in Australia.
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Rachael Padman joined research work on radio astronomy at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division of Radio Physics in Sydney, for two years.
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In 1977, Rachael Padman settled in England to work for Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy at an all-male St John's College, Cambridge, and did research at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.
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Rachael Padman said Rachael spontaneously came up as her name one morning; she initially thought about using Susan from a pupil from her primary school, before renouncing because there were already two Susans in her laboratory, including the secretary.
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Rachael Padman received her degree in 1982 for a doctoral thesis titled "Short-wavelength observations of interstellar molecules".
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Rachael Padman worked there for four years until she became a University Lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, in 1998.
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Rachael Padman is Director of Education in School of Physical Sciences.
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Rachael Padman was publicly outed in the press in 1996, when Padman was elected Fellow of Newnham College.
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The Principal, Dr Onora O'Neill, knew that Rachael Padman had undergone a gender-affirming surgery.
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Feminist Germaine Greer, who was a member of the college's governing body, strongly opposed the appointment, saying that Rachael Padman was a man and male.
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Clare Longrigg published an article titled "A Sister with No Fellow Feeling" in the 25 June 1997 issue of The Guardian making charges on Rachael Padman and containing remarks attributed to Greer.