celebratingamazingwomen:celebratingamazingwomen:Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943) is an astrophysicist
celebratingamazingwomen:celebratingamazingwomen:Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943) is an astrophysicist from NorthernIreland, who was the first to discover radio pulsars. Despite the fact that itwas her research that led to the first observation and analysis of the pulsars,it was her supervisor, Antony Hewish, who received the 1974 Nobel Prize inPhysics for the breakthrough discovery.Growing up in Northern Ireland, she was onlyallowed to study science at school after her parents and others protestedagainst the exclusion of female students from such subjects. She obtained herPhD from the University of Cambridge, and went on to become the President ofthe Royal Astronomical Society and of the Institute of Physics. In 2014 shebecame President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the first woman to hold theposition.She was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018, and used all of the £2.3 million to help female, minority and refugee students become physics researchers. -- source link