New Zealand's Unknown Genius 

My grandma flatted with Beatrice Tinsley at university! Apparently she woke up every morning at like 5am, cooked breakfast, and then started studying. So definitely hard-working as well as a genius.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I live near the University of Canterbury, and hearing about the amazing woman makes me very proud to be a Kiwi.

Thank you for this wonderful story about Beatrice Tinsley. I had the good fortune to meet her at a Symposium she gave at Haverford College in early 1981. I attended with Sarah Lippincott, the Director of Sproul Observatory at nearby Swarthmore College. It seemed just a few weeks later that Sarah told me of Beatrice's death. I remember clearly my shock and sadness. Something about Beatrice touched me and I contribute to the Beatrice Tinsley Prize awarded by the A.A.S. Just 18 months later I traveled through Christchurch on the way to the Antarctic; I didn't realize then the connection Beatrice had with Christchurch.

Thank you very much for paying tribute to this great scientist, who deserves far more recognition.

Christine Cole Catley, and her husband Doug Catley (after whom I was named), were very close friends of my parents. When I was a kid, we'd sometimes go and stay with them at Cape Catley in what was then a very remote part of the Marlborough Sounds. So remote that all the houses (none of which could be seen from any of the others) were all on a party line. One of the last in the country. The Catleys were very interesting and awesome people! :) I'm pretty sure my mum has a signed copy of Bright Star.

I don't think I've ever heard of this woman, thank you very much for sharing her story! She definitely deserves to be known.

Just astounding. Thx for shinning light on Beatrice and her story. Remarkable.

you're not that unknown; don't sell yourself short

Thanks for the interesting video on Beatrice Tinsley. Her name has been mentioned many times in our family. My late father Ian, also a Canterbury graduate, was also a noted NZ astronomer and physicist, and even has a mountain named after him in the same range as Tinsley.

Lovely. Vera’s quote can be rephrased in a larger context: There is no telling how much more we might have learned if we had allowed women to participate fully in all human endeavors.

What a bright mind she was. Thank You!

Enlightening. Thank you for bringing us this story. just amazing

An inspiring story about a remarkable woman - incredibly sad how her life was cut so short. Beautiful scenery throughout the video too. A joy to watch.

What a woman and scientist Beatrice Tinsley was. This was wonderful and I was glad to hear that there are plans to make a film from the biography as that thought crossed my mind, too, after hearing about her remarkable life!

Happy to report I found Bright Star at a Devonport second hand bookseller years ago and read about Beatrice then - thanks for making this a little more public - she deserves to be better known!!

Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 - 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. (Wiki) Beatrice is not mentioned in writing in this video, so you will not find it if you search for her in youtube. as of june 6 2024.

Matter or Mass , to be more accurate, that can't be seen eg Black holes , rogue planets, small rocks , medium sized rocks to far from a light source, dust etc probably make up more mass than is observed in our solar system but we really don't know...because we can't see or measure it. So DARK MATTER as a thing seperate from Baryonic matter is probably superfluous to explain what we observe . When Vera Rubin formulated her Dark Matter theory from the work started by Fritz Zwicky back in 1930 and not knowing about galaxies containing estimated millions of Black holes etc one could say she was working in the Dark ! Billions have now been spent looking for this illusive Dark Matter across decades and continents encompassing many careers but to no avail. Probably because it doesn't exist . Dark Matter was a 'post it' theory to explain the way galaxies rotate in the same way Vulcan was once invented to explain the movement of Mercury . Thanks to Einstein we know better now and thanks to observations by the Hubble telescope and now the JWST we are slowly knowing better. Beatrice Tinsley can't be blamed for being drawn into accepting that theory at that time when even the existance of Neutino's had only been postulated not proven.

Fascinating video Tibees! Yes I'm glad to know Tinsley had to leave her family to study, it shows the focused will-power of this field-changing woman. Love the synchronicities you share with her too, very cool.

Thank you for introducing me to this remarkable woman. I've wondered where society would be today if woman had been encouraged to participate in the sciences and other disciplines from the early days. How many Beatrices never got to shine at all?

What a pleasant and clear speaking voice, you have - something that seems less common in younger people, to older people like me!

Thanks so much for this! I'm a kiwi scientist from Christchurch who lives on the other side of the world, so this story had a nice connection for me. And tomorrow I'm going back for a visit, and I'll go walking around Tekapo too! You captured the scenery so well!!

Tinsley is remembered by UC alongside other greats associated with the uni (Rutherford, Popper, Erskine etc) by having a building named after her. What an incredible mind. I’ve almost finished my own PhD at UC, and occasionally look to those figures for inspiration to get to the finish line.

UC student here, sitting in the library, just really proud of what you're doing

In 2022, NZ Post issued a series of stamps called "Women in Science." Beatrice features on the $3.80 stamp. The scientists on the other stamps are botanist Lucy Moore ($1.70), paleontologist Joan Wiffen ($3.00) and ethnographer Makereti Papakura ($4.30).

Thank you for this. Your presentation is alluring. I planned to just have a quick look and was happily drawn in for the whole ride. What a remarkable and somewhat melancholic story.

Another great story. Thank you Toby!

What an outstanding human being… we need more of these people in the world. Thank you for sharing.

Imagine how much more she could have achieved if the realities of being a woman in that era hadn't held her down. Humanity lost years of her short and precious life that, were she not held back, could have been spent advancing our collective understanding of the universe. Thank you for teaching us about her.

Loved the hiking scenes... refreshed me with memories of my youthful jaunts about NZ. Lovely people, Spectacular Land.

I hope you can have a role in that movie however defined if you want it wow wow wow excellent episode!🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🌌🌞🗽🤯♾🌈☮️💟🥰😘😍🚀🚀🚀…

That's awesome you live in New Zealand Tibees! always thought this was an overseas channel. Calculus lectures at Otago were pretty much incomprehensible when I was there.

Both of you are amazing women! Very inspiring!

I really enjoy these videos that run like a documentary, very educational and engaging in the content. Thanks for all you do for science.

12:48 you forgot to mention that one of the main buildings of the University of Canterbury is named after her :)

Scientists like Beatrice Tinsley are like the stars among us . Very inspiring . Her mind would allow her to overcome all obstacles in her path .

I'm sorry, my dear Kiwis, but Beatrice does not belong to you. Minds of such caliber -- Tolstoy, Einstein, Curie, Plato -- they transcend nationalities. Thank you for introducing us to her! My mouth dropped wide open when you described her finishing her PhD with top marks in three years, with children, with that insane bus ride, AND during a time when she likely had to come home to dirty dishes, laundry, etc. Some people have more drive than a military tank.

Nobody else could have honoured Beatrice as beautifully as you have, Tibees. You do great work and I love your channel so much. I hope you continue and I hope it brings you deep joy.

Thank you so much for sharing Beatrice Tinsley's story with us! What an amazing story, very much looking forward to the movie that's gonna be made about her!

Golly! I'm glad you censored the thumbnail, because my god! A book about a woman astronomer?! Where's the world heading to?! 😱

I feel very, very small.........thank you for sharing her story.

This was a lovely reveletion Toby. Thank you.

The way you tell stories makes everything interesting. Keep it up!!!

Gifted people come in all shapes, sizes and genders strewn across all cultures, rich and poor. We as humans must encourage these special people to be all that they can be.

thank you for sharing this story, even though it's ultimately a sad one. it really doesn't bear thinking about just how much potential has been wasted throughout history through elevating the interests of one gender over the other.

A wonderful story beautifully presented - love the scenery!

That is an amazing story. And also, that is an amazing setting. I need that location so I can go hike up that hill under that beautiful sky and that blue ocean. O_O

Thank you for this video. I’ll confess that I had never heard of her before and it was very interesting to learn a little about her. I hope the movie does go ahead as these are the sorts of people we should be hearing about. That bit about the husband having to eat out now and again really jarred me as well. Even as you said it, it just felt wrong. It was a very different time and I wonder at what we would have become already had things been different in the earlier stages of science and culture.

How many times has this story been repeated? The brightest stars among us held back by mundane rules and duties. How advanced our human race could be if we recognized and encouraged genius.

This great woman of science and their struggles are definitely overlooked and the world should talk and teach more about them as role models for the future generations so thank you

For the husband to not understand his obviously brilliant wife and then not be accomodating of her offer of a position at _Yale_ , is a gross negligence on his part ... inspiring but also tragically sad

Thanks for the interesting story about Beatrice's life and the beautiful footage of Tekapo. It'd be interesting to hear more about the research that you and others did/do at the observatory.

Wow..what a travesty that she isnt more widely know...for her contributions to cosmology, it should be mandatory to include her and works in textbooks...

ufffff if i had a brilliant, smart, intelligent, kind and beautiful woman like her, i would do everything i can in my power to support her as much as i possibly can... her husband was either ignorant and unaware or just didnt care.. but damnn i can only imagine how much more she could have contributed to this field if she had that support from him

you're amazing, keep making history resilient 👍👍

Thank you so much for that. I really hope the movie goes ahead!

wait ! i am prety sur that on that 2D plane I can see a 3th D!!! is it real ! for real thx for all your video it is amazing to lurn about the other dimension

I am glad to learn about her. I will be particularly interested to read a paper she coauthored in 1975 called "An accelerating universe" - that's over 20 years before dark energy, even a few years before inflation, and I would like to know if these arguments from 1975 are still valid today. On the topic of the University of Canterbury, I must draw attention to the recent tragic case of Marni Sheppeard. She was a theorist (particle physics, quantum gravity) and had an even more troubled life than Beatrice Tinsley, but she was also way ahead of her time, and her work and her story should be much better known.

Fascinating woman. R.I.P.

Wow I love her she really was an interesting genius. I wonder where she observed all of life from.

Your shot of Dallas at 4:13 is the exact spot where Kennedy was shot from the brown building in the middle. That entire location has not changed in 60 years - they preserve it.

Thats what I said to Benia Germany PhD scientist, Tibbs knows the whole history of Phds .! That's my Sweety Tibbs. ! 8:33

Amazing presentation and content although a lot of it went over my head

🎉🎉 thank you so much for your inspiring and informative video. I absolutely enjoyed it. Love from New Zealand 👍

We live in a time where discovering and making epic progress whether it be better than crystal clear glimpses of the universe, machine learning unraveling animal communication with whales and nightingales, or the giant leaps ahead we made on immunology and MRNA, we have taken the work of alllllllll of human evolution and progress to get here yet it is just taken for granted and over looked. We are living in amazing times where the work of science as a whole right now holds promise of changes in life capacity, of brain capacity, of extreme interfaces that upgrade our capacity and capability 1000s of times past where we came.

I think you could do a Phd but in a wholly different field. I wonder what your interests are. Maybe cosmology or even as far as marketing. Thanks Toby. Your videos always hit home

10 years of research potential held back by societal nonsense. Such a shame. I am glad though, that even if brief, she was able to free herself from her schackles. She had an extremely busy private life and was yet able to surpass all sorts of expectations. Thank you for this documentation :)

I had no idea jetlag would end up leading me to an insightful channel! I saw you in the background of scott manley's video of the nasa plasma show-through and i was like OI! That's fucken toby!

Beatrice ... Beatrix ... Tales of Peter Rabbit 13:28 nice 👍

You are just wonderful. Thank you for this story.

I should learn English .I want to learn universe together everyone.

I found this book on Amazon for $100. From other sites starting at about $12.

Thank you for an excellent video about a talented, exceptional woman. A terrific presentation!

What a brilliant video, a fine tribute to a remarkable life. Years, no decades!, ago I knew vaguely of her work but would not have been able to name her. Then a company I worked for rented some factory space in Beatrice Tinsley Cresent and I wondered who it was named for. Looked that up, made the connection and never forgotten. Several years ago I saw a wonderful performance of the 'Bright Star' stage play in Auckland. It was brilliant and portrayed the personal/career challenges she faced, and you shared. I try and get to the annual 'Beatrice Tinsley Memorial Lectures', most recent in May was Lisa Kaltenegger on exoplanet detection, always interesting. Although I guess the reason for melanoma cannot be certain it struck me that she dedicated her life to stars, but it's likely the emissions from our nearest took hers. What a life, and a loss.

Even the brightest stars stop shining. Excellent video.

Thank you for sharing this wonderfully hard working and tenaious Kiwi scientist. It looks like I need to read / research next a about Kilmartin.

Gonna have to watch this again when I get to Washington State and have a clearer sky to ponder on the pioneers of space~ Stories like this seem even better since the odds of women Astrologers wasn't as common. Definitely a good video for the Women of STEM.

Thank you for educating us about Beatrice and her work ❤️

Thankyou. Its great to hear about great Kiwis I hope my own daughter is as amazing as you. .. sigjns are she wil be in her own way. .. but no where near as softly spoken.

Hi, thanks for a story! few months ago I was on Mt John too :-) unfortunately I haven't had access to the library there..

that was very interesting, and mixing in biographical imagery with the ascent to the telescopes told the story perfectly...

Well done, a very professional video. Beautifully shot, beautifully explained. Congratulations and a big thank you.

Thanks Tibees for another trailblazer story, I like history and Biographies about people. and of course kudos to you for the scenic views. what a tough path for Beatrice Hill Tinsley. but she did well for herself and made a difference. Quote "Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would" (Lorde)

Great video about a scientist I had not heard of. Keep up great content like this

I wish so much to see the southern hemisphere night sky for an entire year before my mortal demise

love videos like this, the wise minority deserves to be remembered and celebrated, we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

ASTRONOMY's unknown genius.

Oh I know this one. It's Rhys Darby.

Tinsley was a smart girl... 5:27 ... I can see that New Zealand has some smart girls... 🎓

Thank you! That was amazing! And we get a cat at the end - Tibees you rock! 🙂

Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing this amazing if sad story about an exceptional kiwi woman scientist. I also went to Canterbury and love your shots of Tekapo now I'm living back in Sydney.

Thank you for this revelation

4:51 I am not sure if that photo is depressing or encouraging. A woman in a sea of men, some looking full of themselves. The encouraging part is that it's a relatively recent photo and yet things are significantly different now.

Wow, I live in New Plymouth and I had no idea that Beatrice was from here

Inspiring. Thank you.

Pls upload the sn bose letter to Einstein on the topic of bose Einstein condense, thanks a lot

One of my most favourite places in the world.

Thank You.

Love the content! Your channel is one of the only ones I want the notification bell activated for :D

I really appreciate this video. I remember reading about her. Take care of yourself and don’t travel alone. Best wishes