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AkaSci 🛰️ @AkaSci@fosstodon.org

11/28/2025, 2:27:32 PM

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28 November, 1967 - 24-year old physicist and PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars.

She prototyped and helped build the array telescope which consisted of wires and cables strung over a space the size of 57 tennis courts.

The subsequent 1974 "No-Bell" Prize in Physics was awarded to her advisor and another physicist but she was left out because she was a graduate student (and a woman).

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars
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1. Pic of Jocelyn Bell Burnell with the array telescope in the background

2. A chart displaying a graph of a time-varying signal with a hand-written note - "First observation of pulses from CP 1919, 28 November, 1967."

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11/28/2025, 2:35:36 PM

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In 2018, Jocelyn Bell Burnel was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

She decided to use the $3 million prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students to become research physicists.

In this interview, Jocelyn talks about her journey of discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_3zNw91MSY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
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Journeys of Discovery: Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Pulsars

Sitting in a field strung with 120 miles of radio telescope antennae, 24-year old Cambridge PhD student Jocelyn Bell couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d se...

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