Bell Burnell

American  

[ber-nel] / bərˈnɛl /

noun

1. Susan Jocelyn 1943–, British astronomer.

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Bell Burnell Scientific  

/ bĕl′bûr′nĕl′ /

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

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Bell Burnell

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

Soon after the telescope was completed in 1967, Bell Burnell noticed an unusual squiggle, what she called a piece of “scruff,” that she traced to the constellation Vulpecula.

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