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I am so very excited to share this story. Def. a career highlight!
Having the opportunity to sit down and have a one-on-one candid chat with the woman who discovered pulsars and changed the course of astrophysics, leading to me being extremely passionate about this topic and eventually moving into a career of pulsar astronomy. Yeah, this was big.
I hope you enjoy this interview, where Prof. Bell Burnell offers some personal insight into the history of the big discovery as well as the legacy of one of astronomy’s most iconic and influential figures.
What an honour it is to tell this story!
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/interview-dame-professor-jocelyn-bell-burnell
📸 University of Cambridge
#SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #JocelynBellBurnell #Astrophysics #Science #Astrodon
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Today was a good day. I got to meet one of my heroes.
Got to spend one-on-one time with the woman who discovered pulsars, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and interview her for a #SpaceAustralia article 🥺🥺🥺
And she signed a copy of my first-ever PhD paper which I will now have framed and remember forever! 😭😭😭
She is the most humble, nicest person. Just kindness, personified. And such an extremely interesting life - as you can imagine.
I'll publish my article and interview with her in about 12 hours from now (around 8:30am Sydney time) - so keep an eye out for it.
Thanks to Manisha Caleb who took this photo of us.
#Pulsars #RadioAstronomy #JocelynBellBurnell #Astrodon #Science #Astrophysics
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*** EXCITING NEWS ****
Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is coming to Sydney!
A few of us early-career scientists will be sharing our science and the stage with her.
BUT BUT BUT ... I've been granted a one-on-one interview with her for a #SpaceAustralia article!
What an honour!
I get to spend time / have a chat with the woman who discovered pulsars (the objects that I research) - and then be able to share that story with everyone.
It's a huge thing for me!
To be able to write the story, from first-hand account, of that of a Titan in my field of research / astronomy!
JBB will be in Sydney from next week and is also giving a public lecture at the University of Sydney.
Sadly, it looks like the event has already sold out for those who couldn't grab tickets, but keep an eye out for my SpaceAustralia article - will be released on 21st October!
#Pulsars #Science #RadioAstronomy #Astrophysics #JocelynBellBurnell #Astrodon
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@bibianaprinoth "Science is a quest for understanding. A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe, or we are in danger of each believing, that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls. I think a search for understanding is much more serviceable to humankind, and is a sufficiently ambitious goal of itself." -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell #JocelynBellBurnell
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Vite da raccontare
https://edu.inaf.it/rubriche/astrografiche/vite-da-raccontare/
Anche in questo 2025 proponiamo una nuova infografica per raccontare altre quattro donne che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo e alla condivisione della scienza.
#AgnesGiberne #donneERicerca #donneEScienza #infografica #Ipazia #JocelynBellBurnell #LauraBassi
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#Astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst tells us about 10 important & historically neglected #women in #astrophysics, from Dr.Laura Bassi in the late 1700s to Dr. Gladys West & Dame Prof. Jocellyn Bell Burnell today (along with Dr. Becky herself!)
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_physics
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=damkjiFNn5E 01 Jul 2020
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Smethurst#Community #TimeTravel #Research #BeckySmethurst #GladysWest #JocelynBellBurnell #physics #history #KrononautMoon
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Applications are now open for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund for full/part-time graduates wishing to study towards a doctorate in physics from groups that are currently under-represented in physics. Find out more about the fund: https://www.iop.org/about/news/bell-burnell-scholarship-fund-open-for-2023-24-applications
#Physics #Scholarship #InstituteOfPhysics #IOP #JocelynBellBurnell #DiversityInPhysics
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Wonderful 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.
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@mcnees An amazing tale of one tenacious women’s scientific discovery (and of the mansplainers who went on to take the credit!)
As an erstwhile student of physics, I was lucky enough to meet Jocelyn at an Athena SWAN lecture a few years ago (she was one of the founders of the initiative)
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.
She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star.
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Due to their precision, pulsars could act as navigational beacons for interstellar travel.
Because graduate student contributions to discoveries were not recognised at the time, Jocelyn's male PhD supervisor was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering pulsars in 1974, considered one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the 20th century. (2/2)
#JocelynBellBurnell #pulsars #RadioAstronomy #RadioWaves #RadioTelescope #Cambridge#NobelPrize #Astrophysics #stars #soundbeyondmusic
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#British #astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for #pulsar work | #Science | The Guardian