Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Northern Irish physicist (born 1943)

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.