Bell Burnell

American

[ber-nel] / bərˈnɛl /

noun

Susan Jocelyn 1943–, British astronomer.

Bell Burnell Scientific

/ bĕl′bûr′nĕl′ /

British astronomer. In 1967, working with astronomer Antony Hewish, she discovered the first pulsar.

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Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed repeating radio signals while analyzing telescope data.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

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

The findings were announced in a February 1968 article in Nature, in which Dr. Hewish was credited first, followed by Bell Burnell and three other members of the research team.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's highest prize, the Copley Medal.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 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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