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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Thanks to a follower on BlueSky who shared this Sky at Night about her.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h45s

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BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Queen of Pulsars

The team explore pulsars and hear the story of their discoverer, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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