Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 81 |
| Date of birth | July 15,1943 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Lurgan |
| United Kingdom | |
| Discovered | PSR B1919+21 |
| Spouse | Martin Burnell |
| Job | Professor |
| Astronomer | |
| Physicist | |
| Education | Lurgan College |
| University of Glasgow | |
| University of Cambridge | |
| Murray Edwards College | |
| Books | A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist Also Be Religious? |
| Broken for Life | |
| An Introduction to the Sun and Stars | |
| Awards | J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize |
| Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize | |
| Herschel Medal | |
| Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize | |
| Royal Medal | |
| Grande Médaille | |
| Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | |
| Children | Gavin Burnell |
| Parents | G. Philip Bell |
| M. Allison Bell | |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Co-discovering the first four pulsars |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 404811 |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Life story
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; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.
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