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
Meanwhile, Angel of the North sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell have joined the elite Companions of Honour, an exclusive group limited to only 65 recipients at any one time.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
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
Jocelyn Bell Burnell would discover neutron stars in 1967, while doing graduate research in radioastronomy.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2019
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