Search results
May 21, 2024 · Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the pioneering British astrophysicist, has been awarded a special Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics for her celebrated discovery of pulsars and her inspirational leadership within the scientific community.
May 13, 2024 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell holds significance for Irish people, particularly Irish Christians, for several reasons: Pioneering Achievement: Bell Burnell's discovery of pulsars, made while she was a graduate student at Cambridge University, was a groundbreaking achievement in astrophysics.
May 1, 2024 · Pulsar discoverer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20 th century, has been invited to deliver a keynote public lecture by University Chancellor, and fellow scientist, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
May 19, 2024 · And let's not forget Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first radio pulsars. Her male supervisor, Antony Hewish, walked away with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, leaving Bell...
May 3, 2024 · May 2024. British astronomer who helped construct a radio telescope to study quasars and discovered pulsars (later identified as rapidly rotating neutron stars) in 1967. Currently she is the president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as pro-chancellor at Trinity College Dublin.
May 16, 2024 · It was an ordinary November day in 1967 when the universe whispered its secrets to a persistent young scientist. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a name now synonymous with one of the most significant astronomical discoveries of the 20th century, unearthed a mystery from the cosmos: the first pulsars.
May 21, 2024 · In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked. She Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize For It. Source: New York Times.
