CarveHerNameFeb 24

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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Thanks to a follower on BlueSky who shared this Sky at Night about her.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h45s

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Queen of Pulsars

The team explore pulsars and hear the story of their discoverer, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

BBC
Feb 24 at 10:30amWeb
Show threadStrange QuarkFeb 24
@CarveHerName Her achievement was belatedly recognised on #NorthernIreland 's £50 banknote a couple of years ago.