Robert McNeesAstrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a grad student at Cambridge in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars!
Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
the roamerWonderful thread: informative, exciting, infuriating, and ultimately so encouraging. The Nobel prize committee blew it big time in this case (and in many others), other institutions did better, progress is painful, a great scientist succeeded. Thanks for writing this account, it tells us so much.