A portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell has been unveiled by the Royal ... On this day in 1967, she discovered a new type of star known as a pulsar. At the time, she was a 24-year-old student ...

I'm Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell. I'm an astrophysicist and I ... which we know called a pulsar. Jack: What did those pulses mean? Jocelyn: The pulses were coming from a star that swept to ...

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn Bell ... Soon after her discovery, Bell married and changed her name to Burnell. Her husband was a government employee, and his career took them to various ...

While pursuing her PhD at Cambridge University, Jocelyn ... star. Bell and Hewish's discovery was the first known evidence for this, and the pulsing signal source became known as a pulsar.

Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars. This was also the subject of the physics Nobel in 1974, but her male collaborators received ...

This data revealed patterns in pulsar signals showing how they were ... When pulsars were first discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, some proposed the frequent and highly regular periodic ...