Maggie Aderin-Pocock never imagined she'd become one of the United Kingdom's most famous scientists. Best known for co-hosting the BBC's astronomy TV program "The Sky at Night," the space scientist and broadcaster rose from unlikely circumstances to pursue her dreams.
Growing up with dyslexia in government housing in London, Aderin-Pocock went on to study physics and later mechanical engineering at Imperial College London. She then worked on space technology projects that include satellite monitoring of climate change and a key scientific instrument aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) called the Near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec), which measures the light from distant cosmic objects to discover the elements and molecules they’re made of.
