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Rachael Padman was born on 1954 in Melbourne, Australia, is an Australian physicist (born 1954). Discover Rachael Padman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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1954

Rachael Padman (born 1954) is an Australian physics lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England.

From Melbourne, Padman was a graduate in electrical engineering from Monash University, Australia, and specialised in radio astronomy.

After her doctoral research, she has made contributions to research in stellar evolution (the formation of stars).

She is now mainly involved in administrative works in teaching.

Padman is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

Padman was born in Melbourne, in 1954, and attended Melbourne High School in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.

She was the school cadet captain and won the rifle-shooting prize for two consecutive years.

She obtained a first degree in electrical engineering from Monash University in Australia.

She joined research work on radio astronomy at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division of Radio Physics in Sydney, for two years.

In her autobiographical essay, "Rachael's Story", she discussed her lifelong gender identity as female, and one motive behind going to England was a hope for an opportunity to address her gender issues.

1977

In 1977, Padman settled in England to work for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in astronomy at an all-male St John's College, Cambridge, and did research at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.

Among the first things she did on arrival in Cambridge was to approach John Randall at Charing Cross Hospital in London, who prescribed oestrogen.

1978

In 1978, she came out as transgender, and started with her PhD supervisor, Richard Hills.

She 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.

1982

A trans woman, Padman underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1982 when she was undertaking a PhD in astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

She received her degree in 1982 for a doctoral thesis titled "Short-wavelength observations of interstellar molecules".

Following her PhD, Padman moved to the US where she was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

1984

She returned to Cambridge in 1984.

At the Cavendish Laboratory, she was appointed Deputy Project Scientist for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii in 1984.

1996

In 1996, she was elected a Fellow of Newnham College, one of three all-women colleges in the University of Cambridge at the time.

She received opposition from some people, who argued, unsuccessfully, that Padman should not be made a Fellow as she was assigned male at birth.

She was publicly outed in the press in 1996, when Padman was elected Fellow of Newnham College.

The college statutes allowed only female members in the institute.

The Principal, Dr. Onora O'Neill, knew that Padman had undergone a sex-change operation.

Feminist Germaine Greer, who was a member of the college's governing body, strongly opposed the appointment, saying that Padman was a man and male.

Fellows, students, and staff of Cambridge University supported Padman, and she was admitted without further opposition.

1997

Clare Longrigg published an article titled "A Sister with No Fellow Feeling" in the 25 June 1997 issue of The Guardian making charges on Padman and containing remarks attributed to Greer.

1998

She worked there for four years until she became a University Lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, in 1998.

The article was retracted on 19 March 1998 as information was found to be false, and the accusation made against Greer was considered groundless.

2005

From 2005, she has been primarily involved in the administration of teaching in the Department of Physics.

She is Director of Education in School of Physical Sciences.

At Newnham, she is both teaching physics and serves as Director of Studies in Natural Sciences.