biography
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Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn
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née Bell
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| female
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Radio astronomer, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. She studied at Glasgow and Cambridge, and later joined the staff of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. In 1967 she was a research student at Cambridge working with Antony Hewish when she noticed an unusually regular signal, shown to be bursts of radio energy at a constant interval of just over a second - the first identified pulsar. |
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