births
July 15, 1943
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not among the awardees.