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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

1943 -

My astronomy and my Quakerism have grown up together and are comfortable bedfellows.

Burnell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1943 and grew up in Lurgan. At age 11, she failed the exam to get into an academically selective school, and was sent instead to the Mount, a Quaker School in York. She has described Lurgan Quaker Meeting as quite evangelical and the Mount as her first exposure to a more liberal stream of Quakerism.

The first flight of Sputnik helped inspire her interest in space, and she graduated with a degree in Physics in 1965. From there she went to take her PhD at Cambridge University in the then quite new field of radio astronomy – specifically, the search for quasars.

The first two years of her PhD were spent in muddy fields, helping to construct a telescope the size of 57 tennis courts. Once it began to gather data, the telescope generated 100 feet of printout per day, so after six months, Burnell had over 3 miles of paper to work through, distinguishing the typical signals of quasars

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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When they were not sure what caused the signals they detected, Jocelyn Bell and her college advisor D. Anthony Hewish labeled the signal LGM for Little Green Men. They thought it could possibly be a beacon from an alien source.

Susan Jocelyn Bell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 15, 1943. Her father was an architect and an avid reader. Through his books, Jocelyn was introduced to the world of astronomy. Her family and the staff of the Armagh Observatory, which was near her home in Belfast, encouraged her interest in astronomy. Jocelyn Bell's parents very strongly believed in educating women. When she failed the examination required for students wanting to pursue higher education in British schools, they sent her to a boarding school to continue her education.

In 1965, Jocelyn Bell earned a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Glasgow. Later that same year she began work on her Ph.D. at Cambridge University. It was while she was a graduate student at Cambridge, working under the direction of Antony Hewish

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE is an astrophysicist. She was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and has subsequently worked in gamma ray, X-ray, infrared and millimetre wavelength astronomy. She currently holds a Professorial Fellowship in Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and is a Visiting Academic in the University's Department of Physics.

She was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize (2010) and a Royal Medal (2015) by the Royal Society and also holds major awards from French, Spanish and USA bodies. A member of 7 Academies worldwide, she was the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (as well as of the Institute of Physics).

She is currently Chancellor of the University of Dundee and was previously a Pro Vice Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin. She holds numerous Honorary Doctorates.

Professional position

Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Pro Chancellor, Trinity College Dublin

Subject groups

Astronomy and Physics
Astrophysics
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