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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, while a graduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery was recognized by the award. However, although she was the first person to experience pulsars in 1974, she was not among the recipients of the award. The article announcing the discovery of how the pulse has five authors. Bell's thesis supervisor is Antony Hewish enrolled first, Bell second. Hewish received the Nobel Prize, along with astronomer Martin Ryle. Many famous astronomers have criticized Bell's shortcomings, including Sir Fred Hoyle. In 1977, Bell Burnell rejected this argument, saying: "I believe that the Nobel Prizes would lose value if they were awarded to student researchers, except in very special circumstances, and I do not believe that this is the case. one of them."
BornSusan Jocelyn Bell, July 15, 1943, Lurgan, Northern Ireland
NationalityBritish
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, Open University, University of Oxford, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, University of Southampton, University College London
EducationLurgan College, The Mount School, York
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (BSc), University of Cambridge (PhD)
ThesisThe Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method (1968)
Known forCo-discovering the first four pulsars
InfluencesFred Hoyle Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), Henry Tillott (her school physics teacher)
Notable awardsJ. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1978), Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1986), Herschel Medal (1989), Michael Faraday Prize (2010), Royal Medal (2015), Grande Médaille (2018), Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2018)
ChildrenGavin Burnell

About Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 15, 1943. She's 80 years old today.

The first radio pulsars were discovered by an Irish astronomer, and he served as President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell before becoming famous

Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1943 is also the year of Goat (羊) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She was one of the first ladies to be allowed to study science at Lurgan College. In 1965, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow.

Achievement of Jocelyn Bell Burnell

In February 2013, BBC Radio's Woman's Hour named her one of the top 100 most powerful women in the UK.

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Her father was an architect who assisted in the creation of the Armagh Planetarium.

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Astronomer Edward Sabine, like her, was an Irish scientist.

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