jocelyn bell-burnell

astrophysicist and cosmologist

Jocelyn Bell-Burnell is a British astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is best known for her discovery of pulsars, a type of neutron star that emits electromagnetic radiation. Bell-Burnell was born in 1943 in Northern Ireland and studied physics at Cambridge University. She earned her PhD in 1969 and went on to work at various institutions, including the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkel...