Ruth Lynden-Bell began her education at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham.
13 Facts About Ruth Lynden-Bell
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Ruth Lynden-Bell subsequently studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and studied under Norman Sheppard.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell briefly studied under the direction of Harden M McConnell at California Institute of Technology in 1961.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell was elected to the Royal Society in 2006 and was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in 2003.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell is an Emerita Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and was an Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell was acting President of Murray Edwards College from January to December 2012.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters and Science and was an editor of Molecular Physics from 1998 to 2003, as well as having been a member of Boards of Electors to Professorial positions in Sweden, the Republic of Ireland, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell was a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's and still collaborates on research.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell was the daughter of David and Priscilla Truscott.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell married the astronomer Donald Ruth Lynden-Bell in 1961, then a researcher at Caltech; she joined him in California, then moved with him to Cambridge in 1962, to Sussex in 1964, and back to Cambridge in 1972.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell had her first child while at University of Sussex lecturing in a half-time position.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell found that being an experimental spectroscopic chemist was highly conducive to her expectations as a mother.
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Ruth Lynden-Bell received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.