Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; born 15 Julie 1943) is an astropheesicist frae Northren Ireland that, as a postgraduate student, co-diskivered the first radio pulsars in 1967. She wis creditit wi "ane o the maist signeeficant scienteefic achievements o the 20th century". The diskivery wis recognised bi the awaird o the 1974 Nobel Prize in Pheesics, but despite the fact that she wis the first tae observe the pulsars, Bell wis nae ane o the recipients o the prize.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP
Bell Burnell in 2009
Born	Susan Jocelyn Bell (1943-07-15) 15 Julie 1943 Lurgan, Northern Ireland
Eddication	Lurgan College The Mount School, York
Alma mater	Varsity o Glesga (BSc) Varsity o Cambridge (PhD)
Kent for	Co-diskiverin the first fower pulsars
Hauf-marrae(s)	Martin Burnell (m. 1968; div. 1993)
Childer	Gavin Burnell
Awairds	J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1978) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1986) Herschel Medal (1989) Michael Faraday Prize (2010) Ryal Medal (2015) Grande Médaille (2018) Special Brakthrou Prize in Fundamental Pheesics (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Astropheesics
Institutions	Varsity o Bath Varsity o Cambridge Varsity o Glesga Open Varsity Varsity o Oxford Royal Observatory, Edinburgh Varsity o Southampton University College London
Thesis	The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method (1968)
Doctoral advisor	Antony Hewish
Influences	Fred Hoyle Frontiers of Astronomy (1955) Henry Tillott (her schuil pheesics teacher)
Wabsteid
www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/bellburnell

Warks citit

• Bell Burnell, Jocelyn (21 Mey 2000). "Oral History Interviews: Jocelyn Bell Burnell" (Interview). Interviewed bi David DeVorkin. College Park, MD: AIP.
• "Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell to be Royal Society's first female president". BBC Scotland. 5 Februar 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
• Bell, Susan Jocelyn (1968). The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.4926. OCLC 500382385. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.449485.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• "Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 – Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars?".
• Hargittai, István (2003). The road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists. Oxford University Press. p. 240. Bibcode:2002rost.book.....H. ISBN 978-0-19-860785-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Hewish, A.; Bell, S. J.; Pilkington, J. D. H.; Scott, P. F.; Collins, R. A. (1968). "Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source". Nature. 217 (5130): 709. Bibcode:1968Natur.217..709H. doi:10.1038/217709a0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) For the follae-up paper, see Pilkington et al. 1968.
• "Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell". The Life Scientific. 25 October 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 Januar 2014.
• "Visiting star at college". Lurgan Mail. 13 Februar 2007. Archived frae the original on 7 Apryle 2019. Retrieved 6 Februar 2018.
• Pilkington, J. D. H.; Hewish, A.; Bell, S. J.; Cole, T. W. (1968). "Observations of some further Pulsed Radio Sources". Nature. 218 (5137): 126. Bibcode:1968Natur.218..126P. doi:10.1038/218126a0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• "Bell Burnell, Dame (Susan) Jocelyn, (born 15 July 1943), astronomer; Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, since 2004; President, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2014–March 2018". Who's Who (UK). Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.7157.