page_title: Ruby Payne-Scott
hierarchical_section_title: Ruby Payne-Scott
caption_attribution_description: English: Physicist Ruby Payne-Scott as a young woman.
context_page_description: Ruby Violet Payne-Scott, BSc MSc DipEd was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and was the first female radio astronomer.
context_section_description: Ruby Violet Payne-Scott, BSc (Phys) MSc DipEd (Syd) (28 May 1912 – 25 May 1981) was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and was the first female radio astronomer.
caption: Payne-Scott as a student in the 1930s, possibly while she was studying at the University of Sydney (1929–1932)
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