Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer.
[2] She is a member of Association of British Science Writers, Royal Institution and the British Society for the History of Science.
[citation needed] In 2000, the National Science Foundation and the Congress of the United States awarded Hooper the Antarctica Service Medal.
[4] In 2014, Hooper was named the Australian of the Year in the UK.
After seeing a 2007 reading of an unproduced play, she told her son she thought he should consider pursuing it for a film adaptation; the project became his Academy Award-winning film, The King's Speech.