Bell Burnell
Americannoun
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Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed repeating radio signals while analyzing telescope data.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Jocelyn, the last storm to hit the UK, was named by Met Éireann after Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist who discovered the first pulsating radio stars, or pulsars, in 1967.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024
Radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a strange, regularly pulsed radio wave signal from space while working as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge.
From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2023
As Bell Burnell told it, she kept studying the scruff, doing a more detailed analysis that revealed a string of pulses about 1 1/3 seconds apart.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021
Jocelyn Bell Burnell would discover neutron stars in 1967, while doing graduate research in radioastronomy.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2019
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