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    Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as...
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    1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 28 November 1967, it is the first discovered radio pulsar. The...
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    make them detectable as pulsars, and the discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish in 1967 was the first observational suggestion...
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  • university. Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, broadcaster Anna Ford and actress Glenda Jackson are among those...
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  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British astronomer Jocelyn Bioh, Ghanaian-American writer and actor Jocelyn Bolante, Filipino politician Jocelyn Brooke, British...
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  • rower Isaiah Burnell (1871-1941), British music teacher and composer Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), Northern Irish astrophysicist Joe Burnell (born 1980)...
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  • PhD students, Jocelyn Bell (later known as Jocelyn Bell Burnell), helped to build the array and was assigned to analyse its output. Bell soon discovered...
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    Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize For It - In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. But as a young woman in science, her...
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    prediction of general relativity. The discovery of neutron stars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967 sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects...
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  • 2022[update] fellows include: Antony Hewish, Peter Higgs (elected in 1991), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (elected in 1989), Lorna Arnold James Gimzewski, Eleanor Campbell...
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  • exceptional early career contributions to experimental physics The Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize was originally known as the 'Very Early Career Female...
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    Nettie Stevens, Lise Meitner, Marietta Blau, Rosalind Franklin, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The Matilda effect was compared to the Matthew effect, whereby an...
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    that seeded the formation of galaxies." 2018 Special recognition to Jocelyn Bell Burnell for "For fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and...
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  • program is funded by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and provides aid to low-income students as well as those who qualify for refugee status. Bell won the Special Breakthrough...
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  • Peter Knight 2020 Myriam Sarachik 2018 William George Stirling 2017 Jocelyn Bell Burnell 2016 John Dudley 2014 Douglas J. Paul 2012 Brian Cox 2009 Mazlan...
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    Bell-Jackiw-Adler anomaly and was nominated for a Nobel prize. The astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Lurgan, County Armagh, discovered pulsars in 1967. Notable...
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    sector leadership Examples of current fellows include Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin, Benjamin Franklin...
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    up to 300 students. In 1967, one of the college's PhD students, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a researcher in the university radio astronomy group, discovered...
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    women are part of the history of science, specifically astronomy. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Northern Ireland, is credited with being a key part of research...
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    "martians" or "little green men" by the locals and the media. In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge, UK dubbed the first...
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    and offices were refurbished. The Schuster Annexe, opened by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, was added in 2018. The Schuster Laboratory was built during a time...
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    appearance on British discussion program, with among others Heinz Wolff, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Whitley Strieber 1994 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode: "Deep...
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  • This business closed in 2017 and the newspaper ceased publication. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) - Northern Irish astrophysicist, discovered the first...
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  • Terence Tao, mathematics 2021 - Katalin Karikó, biochemistry 2018 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysics 2016 - Alexander Varshavsky, biochemistry 2015 - no...
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    Their discovery was confirmed by Nather, Warner, and Macfarlane. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who co-discovered the first pulsar PSR B1919+21 in 1967, relates...
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  • head of the department from 2018 to 2020, was awarded the inaugural Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal in 2021 by the European Astronomical Society for...
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    radio waves from an astronomical object was in 1933, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories reported radiation coming from the Milky Way. Subsequent...
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  • and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars". Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hewish's graduate student, was not recognized, despite being the...
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  • Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014. Arbuthnott served as Principal and Vice Chancellor...
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    (1948–1951) Antony Hewish (1957–1961) Donald Lynden-Bell (1967–1969) Carole Jordan (1968–1973) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1973–1976) "The Observatory Magazine: Contact...
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