Athene Donald

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Full Name	Athene Donald
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	May 15, 1953(1953-05-15)
Age	71
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Taurus

Athene Donald Biography

Athene Donald is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on May 15, 1953 in London, United Kingdom. Dame Athene Margaret Donald DBE FRS (née Griffith; born 15 May 1953) is a British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.

She worked at Cornell University as a postdoctoral associate, where she switched working on metals to polymers, before returning to Cambridge (Department of Materials Science) in 1981 and to the Cavendish Laboratory in

1983. She became Professor of Experimental Physics in 1998. Her major domain of study is soft matter physics, particularly its applications to living organisms and the relationship between structure and other properties.

Donald has been an outspoken champion of women in science. From 2006 to 2014 she was director of WiSETI, Cambridge University’s Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and she was the University’s first Gender Equality Champion from 2010 to 2014. Outside the University, she chaired the Athena Forum from 2009 to 2013, an organisation which aims to provide a strategic oversight of developments that seek to, or have proven to, advance the career progression and representation of women in science, technology, mathematics, and medicine (STEM) in UK higher education. She sat on the BIS (later BEIS) Diversity group, and serves the Equality and Diversity Board of Sheffield University and the Gender Balance Working Group of the ERC; she is a Patron of the Daphne Jackson Trust. She regularly writes on the topic of women in science in both mainstream media, and on her personal blog. She gives many talks on this issue.

Donald was the first chair of the Institute of Physics biological physics group from 2006 to 2010, and coordinated the writing of lecture notes in biological physics. From 2006 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2015, she was on the Council of the Royal Society, and from 2010 to 2014 she chaired their education committee. For 2015–16, she was President of the British Science Association.

Donald was a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge from 1981 to 2014, when she became Master of Churchill College. She was a member of the ESPCI ParisTech scientific committee during that time.

Athene Donald Net Worth

Athene Donald is one of the richest Physicist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Athene Donald 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Donald has been married to mathematician Matthew J. Donald since 1976; the couple have two children, a son and a daughter.

She was born Athene Margaret Griffith in London, to Walter Griffith and Annette Marian Tylor. She was educated at Camden School for Girls and Girton College, Cambridge. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Natural Science (Theoretical Physics), followed by a PhD in 1977 for research on electron microscopy of grain boundary embrittled systems.

In 1999 Donald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her nomination reads:

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Athene Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Athene Donald celebrates birthday on May 15 of every year.