Dame susan jocelyn bell burnell

British astrophysicist (born 1943)

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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; néeBell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.

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.

In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to use the $3 million (£2.3 million) prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students to become research physicists. The fund is administered by the Institute of Physics.

In 2021, Bell Burnell became the second female recipient (after Dorothy Hodgkin in 1976) of the Copley Medal.

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• "AAS Fellows". AAS. 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
• Addley, Esther (16 June 2007). "From Ussr with gong". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
• Allan, Vicky (5 January 2015). "Face amount Face: branch star who went underneath the rad of Philanthropist Prize judges". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 30 Dec 2015.
• "APS Colleague History". Indweller Philosophical Concert party. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE is an astrophysicist. She was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and has subsequently worked in gamma ray, X-ray, infrared and millimetre wavelength astronomy. She currently holds a Professorial Fellowship in Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and is a Visiting Academic in the University's Department of Physics.




She was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize (2010) and a Royal Medal (2015) by the Royal Society and also holds major awards from French, Spanish and USA bodies. A member of 7 Academies worldwide, she was the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (as well as of the Institute of Physics).


She is currently Chancellor of the University of Dundee and was previously a Pro Vice Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin. She holds numerous Honorary Doctorates.

Professional position

• Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
• Pro Chancellor, Trinity College Dublin

Subject groups

• Astronomy and Physics

  Astrophysics

• Other

  Public understanding of science, Other interests, Science education at secondary level

Awards

• Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture

  On 'The end of the world in 2012? Science communication