Jocelyn Bell Burnell
person · earth
Astrophysicist who, as a Cambridge postgraduate operating a radio array she had helped build, noticed an anomalous recurring signal on chart paper in November 1967 and pursued it rather than dismissing it as interference. The source, CP 1919, pulsed every 1.337 seconds with a regularity that initially defied astrophysical explanation and was soon identified as a rotating neutron star - the first observational confirmation of an object hypothesised thirty-three years earlier. The 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery went to Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle and not to her, a decision that remains contested. Not a place.
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- A regularly pulsing radio source is identifiedparticipated_in
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- Story
- Astrophysicist who, as a Cambridge postgraduate operating a radio array she had helped build, noticed an anomalous recurring signal on chart paper in November 1967 and pursued it rather than dismissing it as interference. The source, CP 1919, pulsed every 1.337 seconds with a regularity that initially defied astrophysical explanation and was soon identified as a rotating neutron star - the first observational confirmation of an object hypothesised thirty-three years earlier. The 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery went to Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle and not to her, a decision that remains contested. Not a place.
- Knowledge
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- A regularly pulsing radio source is identified
- Connections
- A regularly pulsing radio source is identified
- A regularly pulsing radio source is identified
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Baade and Zwicky propose supernovae and neutron stars
- Neutron star
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Evidence
- Reports the first pulsar, CP 1919, with a period near 1.337 s. Journal, volume and page come from institutional summaries of the discovery read via search; the paper was not fetched, and the 28 November 1967 identification date and the exact period value are from University of Cambridge and American Physical Society accounts rather than the paper.
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