immediately after her PhD, most co-authored with her PhD supervisor John Grant Davies as well as Bernard Lovell himself. Career and research After completing her PhD in 1952, Almond had a job offer from Ferranti but instead began working on palaeomagnetism with Peter Stubbs and John Clegg in a group established by Professor Patrick Blackett. Their research on Late Triassic New Red Sandstone indicated that England had rotated 34° and moved towards the north pole over geological time and is regarded as playing an important role in convincing Earth scientists of the importance of palaeomagnetism in studying Earth history. The magnetometer, one of the pieces equipment used, required a large gold bar and Almond, who was dating and later married the technician (Jim) who transported the gold bar, would joke about hacking off a small piece for her wedding ring. Almond married around this time and moved, with Blackett, from the University of Manchester to Imperial College, London and stayed until 1954 when she left on a career break to have a children. She soon returned to working part-time, first teaching science in a local secondary school for six months and then learned computer programming before going on to become a lecturer in mathematics and computer science. Almond was one of the first computer science lecturers in the UK and one of the first (if not the first) female computer science lecturers in the UK. Almond worked at the University of London for a short while and then returned to Manchester where she taught at the University of Manchester and then moved to the Open University where she taught until 2008 when she retired at the age of 80. References 1928 births Jodrell Bank Observatory 20th-century British astronomers English physicists English women physicists Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Manchester Living people Academics of the Open University