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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, quiet revolutionary, wins $3MM prize for pulsars discovery

• ColinWright 8y ago
  ... and she immediately donates it to a fund a scholarship to help counter "unconscious bias" in physics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45425872 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45425872
  • EvilMonkeyMat 8y ago
    Yes. What an amazing woman.
• snapetom 8y ago
  One of the pulsars she discovered was the basis for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures' iconic image.