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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish astrophysicist. Her discovery of radio pulsars has been called as "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century".[9]
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Born | Susan Jocelyn Bell (1943-07-15) 15 July 1943 (age 81)[1] |
Education | The Mount School, York |
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Known for | Discovering the first four pulsars[3] |
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Martin Burnell
(m. 1968; div. 1993) |
Children | Gavin Burnell |
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Fields | Astrophysics |
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Thesis | The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Antony Hewish[4][5][6] |
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Website | www2 |
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Her work was recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish[5][6] and to the astronomer Martin Ryle. Bell was excluded, despite having been the first to observe and precisely analyse the pulsars.[10]
Burnell won the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.