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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the first known pulsar. This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, though she was not among its recipients.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. J. Michael KosterlitzJune 22, 1943 – present
  2. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (this page)July 15, 1943 – present
  3. John PendryJuly 4, 1943 – present
  4. Oskar LafontaineSeptember 16, 1943 – present
  5. Ralph SteinmanJanuary 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011
  6. Richard SmalleyJune 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005

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