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
Spouse: Martin Burnell (m. 1968–1993)
Children: Gavin Burnell
Parents: G. Philip Bell and M. Allison Bell
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Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British astronomer who discovered pulsars, the cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses. In 1974 the Nobel Prize for ...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist and astronomer. As a research assistant, she helped build a large radio telescope and discovered pulsars, ...
In 1965, Jocelyn Bell earned a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Glasgow. Later that same year she began work on her Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE is an astrophysicist. She was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and ...
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars in 1967 while she was a postgraduate student at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College) carrying out ...
Studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, she was one of very few women in the physics department, and one of even fewer who came from ...
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Bell Burnell finished her talk by listing the circumstances that she believes led to her discovery of pulsars in 1967. Chief among them was having the time and ...
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Susan Jocelyn Bell took an examination at age 11 as part of Britain's stringent requirements for pursuing higher education -- ...