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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.
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.
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.
Sep 6, 2018 · When Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar 51 years ago, she revealed a new tool for solving many mysteries of the cosmos.
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,...
Sep 6, 2018 · Fifty years after discovering pulsars — compact rotating stars that emit beams of radiation — astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded one of the most lucrative prizes in science: a...
Aug 24, 2021 · Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's highest prize, the Copley Medal. The medal is awarded for outstanding...
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.
Feb 16, 2024 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Whose 1967 Discovery of Pulsars Landed Her Supervisor a Nobel, Tells Young Physicists, “Don’t Second-Guess Yourself”
Dec 30, 2017 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell arrived at the University of Cambridge in the mid-nineteen-sixties, just as construction was beginning on a new kind of radio telescope.
