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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. A trans woman, Padman underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1982 when she was undertaking a PhD in astronomy. In 1996, she was elected a Fellow of Newnham College, one of three all-women colleges at the University of Cambridge. She received opposition from some people, who argued, unsuccessfully, that Padman was not female.〔 ==Early life and education== Padman was born Russell Padman, 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 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 of her going to England was a hope for an opportunity to address her gender issues.〔(Rachael's Story (autobiographical essay) )〕 In 1977 she went to England to work for PhD in astronomy at an all-male St John's College, Cambridge, and did research at Cavendish Laboratory in University of Cambridge. Among the first things she did on arrival in Cambridge was to approach John Randall at Charing Cross Hospital in London, who prescribed oestrogen. 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 received her degree in 1982. She immediately went to US at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Miller Research Fellow. After two years in 1984, she returned to Cavendish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rachael Padman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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