Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Also known as Jocelyn Bell, Jocelyn Bell Burnel, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Susan Jocelyn Bell, Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dame Jocelyn Bell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist born in 1943 who made groundbreaking contributions to astronomy. She is best known for her role in discovering pulsars—rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radio waves—a discovery that fundamentally changed our understanding of stellar objects and the universe.
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- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,812x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) 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.
Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011. She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
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