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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Astrophysicist
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974;... Wikipedia
Born: July 15, 1943 (age 80 years), Lurgan, United Kingdom
Discovered: PSR B1919+21
Education: Murray Edwards College (1965–1969), University of Cambridge (1969), University of Glasgow (1965), and more
Children: Gavin Burnell
Spouse: Martin Burnell (m. 1968–1993)