Dame Carole Jordan, DBE, FRS, FRAS, FInstP (born 19 July 1941), is a British physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer and academic.
[6] Carole Jordan was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Girls[7] and at University College London (BSc 1962; PhD 1965).
[4] Her PhD studies under C. W. Allen opened up a new field in atomic physics and included identification of iron and other lines in the solar extreme ultra-violet spectrum and the ZETA experiment, early ionisation-balance calculations, development of density-diagnostic methods using the iron lines, calculation of relative element abundances and modelling from emission-measure distributions.
[9] Jordan calculated the ionisation balance of elements, including the effects of density-dependent di-electronic recombination, level populations in ions, and combined this with observational results from the Sun and stars.
Since about 1980, she has been a key member of nearly every team, in the UK, Europe and the US, concerned with the development and use of instruments for the studies of ultra-violet and x-ray spectra of the Sun and of the stars.