Stand-up scientist uses comedy to popularise physics

Dr Jessamyn Fairfield is not only seriously smart but seriously funny — an innovator who has literally gone to the ends of the earth to help fellow academics use comedy to promote their work.
As a result, the NUI Galway nanoscience physicist has been awarded the Mary Somerville Medal by the Institute of Physics for what it deemed her “stellar work as a public speaker and writer on physics for a popular audience, and for having organised and hosted many innovative events bringing physics to the Irish public”.