Radio Universe

Astrophysicist Emma Chapman’s Radio Universe reveals how we use radio waves to explore the distant universe. Chapman follows one on a journey from Earth into the wider Milky Way, passing black holes and pulsars * New Scientist *PRAISE FOR FIRST LIGHT, BY EMMA CHAPMAN * : *A dispatch from the frontiers of science, from a brain fizzing with ideas and energy – Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at NightAn illuminating and entertaining look at the earliest stars of our cosmos. Chapman is a witty and straightforward guide, and her enthusiasm is infectious * Washington Post *Thoroughly engaging … allows us to see science in the making. Chapman serves as a wonderful guide, whose voice is reminiscent of Carl Sagan’s, although with an extra and very welcome dollop of impish humor * Wall Street Journal *

Emma Chapman is an award-winning radio astronomer based at the University of Nottingham, and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellow. Her first book, First Light, was based on her groundbreaking research into the era of the first stars. She won the 2018 Royal Society Athena Prize for her work to end staff-student sexual harrassment in academia.