An 11-year-old girl received a 5-pound note for naming Pluto when it was discovered in 1930
The Vintage News May 15, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Venetia Burney was an 11-year-old girl eating breakfast with her mother and grandfather in Oxford, England, in March 1930. Her grandfather, a retired head Oxford librarian, read aloud some exciting news in the London Times: Scientists at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, had photographed a planet long suspected of … Read more
