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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. [9] [10] The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.
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Apr 30, 2024 · neutron star. 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 Hewish, had...
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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 used these cosmic lighthouses to test physics theories. Find out why she donated her $3-million prize to support physics students from under-represented groups.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist and astronomer who discovered the first pulsars, rapidly spinning neutron stars, in 1967. She was a research assistant at Cambridge University and a Nobel Prize contender in 1974. She has also worked as a professor, a dean, and a president of various scientific organizations.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who discovered the first pulsars in 1967. She shares her journey of discovery, from building a radio telescope to identifying the first pulsar, and how she used her Nobel Prize to support under-represented groups in physics.
Sep 6, 2018 · The astrophysicist, who discovered pulsars as a PhD student in 1967, is honored for her scientific achievements and leadership. She plans to use the prize money to support diversity in science and to explore pulsars as gravitational-wave detectors.
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