A recent video of Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell who discovered the first radio-pulsars while she was a 24 year old postgraduate student. Her supervisor Antony Hewish and Sir Martin Ryle was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for this discovery, and she was overlooked.
Her omission was immediately questioned by leading scientists including Sir Fred Hoyle, but she has argued the prize was awarded appropriately at the time due to her student status.
In 2018, Dame Jocelyn won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of radio pulsars, a major science award with prize money of £2.3m.
She donated all her winnings to help more people from under-represented groups become physics researchers - including women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and refugee students.
The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund of the Institute of Physics was set up with the Prize money. Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded many prizes and honours during her long career as an astrophysicist, including being made a Dame of the British Empire, a Professor at Oxford University, and President of the Institute of Physics.
Her omission was immediately questioned by leading scientists including Sir Fred Hoyle, but she has argued the prize was awarded appropriately at the time due to her student status.
In 2018, Dame Jocelyn won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of radio pulsars, a major science award with prize money of £2.3m.
She donated all her winnings to help more people from under-represented groups become physics researchers - including women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and refugee students.
The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund of the Institute of Physics was set up with the Prize money. Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded many prizes and honours during her long career as an astrophysicist, including being made a Dame of the British Empire, a Professor at Oxford University, and President of the Institute of Physics.
