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Name: Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Birth Date: July 15, 1943
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Female
Occupations: radio astronomer

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Biography of Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The radio astronomer Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) discovered the first pulsar (stars that release regular bursts of radio waves) in 1967. Susan Jocelyn Bell (Burnell) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on July 15, 1943. Her father was the...
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Biography of Jocelyn Susan Bell Burnell
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Born in Northern Ireland near Armagh Observatory, Bell Burnell was encouraged by the staff there when they found she was interested in astronomy. She went on to earn a B.Sc. degree in 1965 at the University of Glasgow. Later that year she began to work...


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1943- English Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars when she was a graduate student. Despite this accomplishment, Burnell's professional life as an astrophysicist has been erratic. A researcher, teacher, and administrator,...
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS FRAS, Ph.D (born as Susan Jocelyn Bell, 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist, who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish, for which he won a Nobel...


 

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