Heather Couper
| Heather Anita Couper | |
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| Born | 2 June 1949 |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Astronomy |
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Website http://www.hencoup.com/ |
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Prof Heather Anita Couper, CBE, BSc, DSc (Hon), DLitt (Hon), FInstP, CPhys, FRAS (born 2 June 1949), is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and also the 1990s on British television, and was president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986.
Couper was born on 2 June 1949. She is the eldest daughter of George Couper Elder Couper and Anita Couper (née Taylor). She attended St Mary's Grammar School (merged with St. Nicholas Grammar School in 1977 to become Haydon School) on Wiltshire Lane in Northwood Hills, Middlesex. In a TV tribute to Patrick Moore she read out a letter from Moore she received when she was aged 16 in which he responded to a question of hers with the comment that "being a girl" was not detrimental to a career in astronomy. She graduated from the University of Leicester with a BSc in Astronomy and Physics and did research at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, whilst a postgraduate student at Linacre College, Oxford.
From 1967-9 she was a management trainee with Peter Robinson Ltd. From 1969-70, she was a research assistant at the Cambridge Observatory. She was a lecturer at Greenwich Planetarium (superseded in 2007 by the Peter Harrison Planetarium) and the Old Royal Observatory from 1977-83. She became a television presenter in 1981.
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