Journeys of Discovery: Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Pulsars

Sitting in a field strung with 120 miles of radio telescope antennae, 24-year old Cambridge PhD student Jocelyn Bell couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d seen something before.
The year was 1967. For two years, Jocelyn had helped solder and sledgehammer the antennae into place at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory just outside Cambridge. As she pored over her rolls of chart recordings, she noticed it again: a bit of "scruff", a “one part in 10 million” squiggle on a line. She had discovered pulsars, a previously unknown object in the universe.
The work resulted in a Nobel Prize (controversially, not to her), inspired the artwork on a Joy Division album cover, and led her to donate all of a £2.3 million prize to help underrepresented groups become physicists.
We talk to Jocelyn about her journey of discovery.
Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journey...

[@aw8585]

You're an inspiration and a personal hero of mine. Women are still not treated equally in academia. I think of you when I need to stand my ground. I call it channeling my inner Dame Jocelyn.

[@davidmoloney3291]

Amazing woman, amazing person and wonderful scientist! An inspiration to us all!

[@snazhound5827]

What a fantastic woman, the incredible leaps that she made in physics and astronomy are amazing. Dyson famously protested the Nobel prize going to Hewish for the discovery of pulsars was very valid. I think the Nobel committee should really explain their choices. Truly a fantastic scientist.

[@roberthermens904]

Thank you Miss Burnell!

[@HerrProfMike]

An amazing lady with a great brain and a clarity of vision about how to appropriately spend her award. This shows how great UK science and scientists are. We need much more investment in science and to make it much more inclusive.

[@h_3_x_]

Amazing 👏

[@dr.rakshitstark274]

Incredible!🙏🏻

[@nasyarshad8945]

This is such a beautiful rendition from a scientist. I wish I could be part of this research.

[@Jude74]

Great. Will they finally give her the Nobel Prize for her work? Two scientists from the university got it instead. Not cool.

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Indeed, a great woman.

[@dr.ahmetboran8455]

BİİZNİLLAH, TWICE, I HAVE TALKED TO J.BELL ,.....

[@josephgaspard5900]

Beautiful

[@starnunki]

Wow... great... amazing 🔥🔥

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@vasudevyadav9439]

👍👍👍😊😊☺️👌

[@tommartin8700]

Well, $3M isn't too bad !

[@AvangionQ]

Are you good enough at what you do to get imposter syndrome?