Fr George Coyne SJ

In 1978 Pope Luciani appointed Jesuit Fr George Coyne as Director of the Vatican Observatory who then recruited young astronomers worldwide and established a non-resident adjunct program for women to participate. Women accounted for almost half the participants in the biennial Vatican Observatory Summer School he established for astronomy graduate students. Fr Coyne said the mission of the Observatory was ‘to do good science’.

Here, in 2014, Fr Coyne gives a TEDx Talk called,

“We are all made of stardust” …