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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/ b ɜːr ˈ n ɛ l /; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.
Jun 4, 2024 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born July 15, 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a British astronomer who discovered pulsars, the cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses. She attended the University of Glasgow, where she received a bachelor’s degree (1965) in physics.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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.
Dec 29, 2022 · In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. Today, Jocelyn's story.
