Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
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Discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967 as a PhD student—work that won the Nobel Prize in Physics, though she didn't get credited. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell became the face of scientific recognition gone wrong.
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not among the awardees.
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