Jocelyn Bell Burnell
JUL 15, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031265
Today is the birthday of Jocylen Bell Burnell, who was born on this date in 1943 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. Burnell, as a postgraduate was the first person to observe and analyze radio pulsars. Despite her role in building the telescope and being the person who first identified pulsars, she was not a recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize, which was awarded to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle for the development of radio aperture synthesis and the discovery of pulsars. (Image credit: Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Date in History: 15 July 1943
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