EveryDay Human DerekFeb 24
CarveHerName

#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

Feb 24 at 9:00amWeb
Show threadCarveHerNameFeb 24

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
Show threadStrange QuarkFeb 24
@CarveHerName Her achievement was belatedly recognised on #NorthernIreland 's £50 banknote a couple of years ago.
Show threadlucaFeb 24
@CarveHerName And in 2026 we know well how any diversity program is still banned and persecuted, in countries with authoritarian regimes.
Show threadMarcelFeb 24
@CarveHerName When things like this are discovered, they should be corrected: take the prize back from the men who did not deserve it, and give it to the women who did. What is so difficult about that?
Show threadNumber6 Feb 24

@CarveHerName

Why do we continue to give so much credence to the Nobel prize, when clearly whoever these semi-anonymous people are suffer from severe lapses in judgement?

Show threadChrono MatthiasFeb 24

@CarveHerName Short interview with Jocelyn Bell Burnell anno 1971 https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=52.16409,0.03451&q=52.16466,0.03078&z=15.25&r=109&t=36&s=1&i=1

#astro

Show threadianFeb 27
@CarveHerName she’s always been a hero of mine, she absolutely rocks.