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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP ( / bɜːrˈnɛl /; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.
Sep 6, 2018 · Learn how Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar in 1967 as a graduate student at Cambridge, and how she has contributed to science and education ever since. Find out how pulsars are used to test physics, detect gravitational waves, and maybe even communicate with aliens.
Jun 4, 2024 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British astronomer who discovered pulsars, the cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses. In 1974 the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle, who were credited with the discovery, and the omission of Bell Burnell caused controversy.
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Sep 6, 2018 · In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge, working on a dissertation about strange objects in distant galaxies known as quasars. She and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, had...
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Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars in 1967 while she was a postgraduate student at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College) carrying out research at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory with Antony Hewish.
Aug 24, 2021 · The astrophysicist, who discovered pulsars in 1967, is the second woman to receive the Royal Society's highest prize. She was a 24-year-old student at Cambridge and was overlooked for a Nobel prize in favour of her male collaborators.
Apr 2, 2014 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist and astronomer. As a research assistant, she helped build a large radio telescope and discovered pulsars, providing the first direct...
