Story: Malaysians and Singaporeans
Mazlan Othman studied physics at the University of Otago in the 1970s. She came on a Colombo Plan scholarship and was the first woman to gain a PhD in physics from the university. She went on to become director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (1999–2002) in Vienna.
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