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Dame
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP
Bell Burnell in 2009
Born
Susan Jocelyn Bell
(1943-07-15) 15 July 1943 (age 80)[4]
Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland[5][6]
Nationality
British
Education
Lurgan College
The Mount School, York
Alma mater
University of Glasgow (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for
Co-discovering the first four pulsars[7]
Spouse
Martin Burnell
(m. 1968; div. 1993)
Children
Gavin Burnell
Awards
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1978)
Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1986)
Herschel Medal (1989)
Michael Faraday Prize (2010)
Royal Medal (2015)
Grande Médaille (2018)
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2018)
Copley Medal (2021)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2021)
Prix Jules Janssen (2022)
Cunningham Medal (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
Astrophysics
Institutions
University of Bath
University of Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Open University
University of Oxford
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
University of Southampton
University College London
Thesis
The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method(1968)
Doctoral advisor
Antony Hewish[1][2][3]
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific, 19 December 2018.[8]
Website
www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/bellburnell
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell BurnellDBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; néeBell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.[9][10] The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.[11]
Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011. She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to use the $3 million (£2.3 million) prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students to become research physicists. The fund is administered by the Institute of Physics.[12][13][14][15]
In 2021, Bell Burnell became the second female recipient (after Dorothy Hodgkin in 1976) of the Copley Medal.[16]
^Bell 1968.
^Hewish et al. 1968, p. 709.
^Pilkington et al. 1968, p. 126.
^Who's Who 2017.
^Lurgan Mail 2007.
^Bain 2022.
^Bell Burnell 2007, pp. 579–581.
^The Life Scientific 2011.
^Cosmic Search Vol. 1.
^Hargittai 2003, p. 240.
^Tesh & Wade 2017, pp. 31–33.
^Sample 2018.
^Kaplan & Farzan 2018.
^Ghosh 2019.
^IoP 2019.
^BBC: Copley 2021.
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