Rebecca Smethurst

Becky Smethurst, better known as Dr. Becky, is the kind of public figure science desperately needs. A 1990-born astrophysicist from Lancashire and a research fellow at Oxford, she also runs a YouTube channel that translates black holes and galaxies into something the rest of us can actually grasp. I deeply admire serious, award-winning researchers who choose to spend their energy handing wonder to ordinary people rather than staying sealed inside the lab. That generosity is what keeps science alive in the public imagination. She makes you want to look up at the night sky again, and that, to me, is a rare and valuable gift.

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Name (English)

Rebecca Smethurst

Name (Japanese)

ベッキー・スメサースト

Reading

べっきー・すめさーすと

Born

May 15, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Lancashire, United Kingdom

Occupation

astrophysicist / YouTuber / scientist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

University

University of Oxford

• Official sitehttps://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/drbecky_s/
• Xhttps://x.com/drbecky_
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky%20Smethurst
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58246368

Tags

• astrophysicist
• YouTuber
• scientist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.