![]() Support and encouragement from her close family, and in particular her grandmother, allowed her to have the confidence to seek a career in science. ![]() She describes herself as being "a poor, Aboriginal kid this definitely influenced my experience of the education system and just not being seen in it." She describes her "terrible attendance rate" at high school, and succeeding in science due to tutoring and the help of a mentor. Noon was raised in Coledale, a small town near Tamworth, the country music centre of Australia, with a significant disparity between people of different economic classes. ![]() She is researching Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, Australia. Karlie Alinta Noon is the first Indigenous woman in Australia to graduate with a double degree in maths and physics, an astronomer, of the Gamilaraay people, multiple award winner, 2019 Eureka Prize nominee, and one of the 2017 BBC's 100 Women. ![]()
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