Abstract
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, Murnane was born in 1959 in a rural part of County Limerick, Ireland. Her father, an elementary school teacher, never had the opportunity to attend college, but Murnane remembers vividly how he loved science. He had wanted to be a botanist and attempted to teach his young daughter the Latin names of plants. “I can’t remember any of them because I was busy scouring the books he would bring home from the library on astronomy and mathematics,” Murnane says. “My father did create a physicist even though that was not his intent. If I solved a math puzzle, then the reward was chocolate or a new …
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