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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> Burnell was born in Belfast and gained a degree in Physics from Glasgow University and then a PhD at <a href="/topics/Cambridge-University" title="Cambridge University" class=fl>Cambridge University</a> in Radio Astronomy. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Professor <b>Bell</b> Burnell discovered the <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsars</a> when she noticed some unusual marking on chart paper from a radio telescope she was operating. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Professor <b>Bell</b> Burnell is succeeded by Christopher Jennison, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bath.ac.uk /internal/news/bell_burnell.htm</font> (601 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Born in (A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of <a href="/topics/Northern-Ireland" title="Northern Ireland" class=fl>Ireland) Northern</a> Ireland, <b>Bell</b> Burnell attended the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Glasgow) University of Glasgow and then (A university in England) <a href="/topics/Cambridge-University" title="Cambridge University" class=fl>Cambridge University</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Temporarily dubbed "Little Green Man 1" the source was eventually identified as a rapidly rotating (A star that has collapsed under its own gravity; it is composed of neutrons) <a href="/topics/Neutron-star" title="Neutron star" class=fl>neutron star</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Before retiring <b>Bell</b> Burnell was Dean of Science at the (Click link for more info and facts about <a href="/topics/University-of-Bath" title="University of Bath" class=fl>University of Bath</a>) <a href="/topics/University-of-Bath" title="University of Bath" class=fl>University of Bath</a> between <a href="/topics/2001" title="2001" class=fl>2001</a> and 2004, and was President of the (Click link for more info and facts about <a href="/topics/Royal-Astronomical-Society" title="Royal Astronomical Society" class=fl>Royal Astronomical Society</a>) <a href="/topics/Royal-Astronomical-Society" title="Royal Astronomical Society" class=fl>Royal Astronomical Society</a> between 2002 and 2004.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jocelyn_bell_burnell.htm</font> (263 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/everyone/pulsars">An Introduction to Pulsars</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> noticed small pulses of radiation when their telescope was looking at a particular position in the sky and for a short time scientists thought they might be coming from an extra-terrestrial civilisation. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsar</a> discovered by <b>Bell</b> and Hewish is now called PSR B1919+21: PSR stands for Pulsating Source of Radio and B1919+21 indicates the position of the <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsar</a> in the sky. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> and the telescope in Cambridge, England, used to discover <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsars</a>.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>outreach.atnf.csiro.au /education/everyone/pulsars</font> (2660 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b>, or, comes from the name Gautzelin, meaning “Gaut,” or “Goths.” The Gauts (or Goths) were a Germanic tribe. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> is a diminutive of the name Josce, an French/English form of the medieval Latin name Jodocus, from the Breton name Iodoc, meaning “lord.” See </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> was revived in the 19th century, sometimes as a transferred surname, and was again given mostly to boys.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/j/jocelyn.html</font> (146 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Over the years, <b>Bell</b> and several other students, under the supervision of <b>Bell's</b> thesis advisor, Anthony Hewish, had built a 4.5 acre radio telescope to investigate scintillating radio sources in the sky. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Many argued that <b>Bell</b> should have shared the <a href="/topics/Nobel-Prize" title="Nobel Prize" class=fl>Nobel Prize</a> awarded to Hewish for the discovery, saying that her recognition of the signal was the crucial act of discovery. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Others, including <b>Bell</b> herself, said that she received adequate recognition in other ways, and should not have been so lavishly rewarded for doing what a graduate student is expected to do in a project conceived and set up by others.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.phil.uga.edu /faculty/wolf/pulsar.htm</font> (258 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://greg.org/archive/2004/06/27/jocelyn_bell_the_woman_who_discovered_pulsars.html">greg.org: Jocelyn Bell, the woman who discovered pulsars</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After discovering an inexplicable pulsing signal (a "sniggling quarter inch" blip that showed up for 5 min/day) in her PhD radio astronomy data (thousands of feet of paper charts) at Cambridge, <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> and her adviser Tony Hewish, wondered if it was a stellar phenomenon or some man-made interference. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Then the night before leaving for Christmas break, <b>Bell</b> locked herself in the lab, pored over her data, and found another signal in another part of the sky, confirming that the signal was not caused by human interference. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Bell's</b> fascinating first-hand account of the discovery was reprinted in the June 2004 issue of Status: A Report on Women in Astronomy, which is published by the American Astronomical Society [PDF only].</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>greg.org /archive/2004/06/27/jocelyn_bell_the_woman_who_discovered_pulsars.html</font> (523 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Jocelyn Bell-Burnell: Visiting Distinguished Teacher, Department of Physiccs, Princeton University</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)</i></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Bell</b> Burnell, currently a visiting fellow in the Physics Department, earned her BSc in 1965 at the University of Glasgow and her PhD at <a href="/topics/Cambridge-University" title="Cambridge University" class=fl>Cambridge University</a> in 1968. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Bell</b> Burnell has taught at the University of Southampton, been on the staff of the Mullard Space Science Lab at the University of London and held a management post at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Her research interests are in astrophysics, and, she says, "astronomical examples tend to find their way into my courses." Within astrophysics, her interests are "the <a href="/topics/Neutron-star" title="Neutron star" class=fl>neutron stars</a> or <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsars</a> that I discovered as a grad student." She has been associated this year with Princeton's <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsar</a> group.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>pupgg.princeton.edu /www/jh/news/news_bell_burnell.html</font> (367 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The second in the 'Oxford Science Lecture Series' was given on March 13 1997 by <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> Burnell, Professor of Physics at the Open University. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In order to set the scene and to discuss where astronomers believe <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsars</a> should be placed in the evolving Universe, <b>Jocelyn</b> first took her audience through a Cook's Tour of the better-known realms of the cosmos -- the solar system, nearby stars in space, the Galaxy and other distant galaxies. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> She then traced briefly the birth and evolution of a star from an almost random aggregation of particles to an incandescent condensation of matter (a 'star') until it finally exhausts its nuclear fuel and explodes as a supernova, leaving at its centre a tiny core of unimaginably dense material.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>wwwusers.brookes.ac.uk /p0071266/jbell.htm</font> (335 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Het merkwaardige was dat deze signalen totaal niet leken op bekende bronnen van signalen, zoals sterren, hemellichamen of zonnewind. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Bell</b> ontdekte dat signaal regelmatig was, elke 1,3373011 seconde. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Dit kwam omdat veel mensen vonden dat <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> eigenlijk de Nobelprijs zou moeten krijgen, omdat zij de eigenlijke ontdekking had gedaan.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/biographies_scientists/88748">Susan Jocelyn Bell-Burnell - Radio, Gamma Ray, X-ray, Infrared Waves from the Stars</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Susan <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> was born <a href="/topics/July-15" title="July 15" class=fl>July 15</a>, <a href="/topics/1943" title="1943" class=fl>1943</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Bell</b> went on to graduate from the University of Glasgow in 1965 with a degree in physics, then earned a Ph.D. in radio astronomy from <a href="/topics/Cambridge-University" title="Cambridge University" class=fl>Cambridge University</a> in 1969. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Her long and remarkable career is especially noteworthy since she spent the next eighteen years working part-time while she raised her son and followed her husband as he pursued his government job from city to city.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies_scientists/88748</font> (593 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn</b> <b>Bell</b> Burnell is Professor of Physics at the Open University. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Born in <a href="/topics/Northern-Ireland" title="Northern Ireland" class=fl>Northern Ireland</a>, she was educated at the Mount School, York, and at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Jocelyn’s</b> role in the discovery of <a href="/topics/Pulsar" title="Pulsar" class=fl>pulsars</a>, coupled with her exceptional personal skills, and her gender, have given her many opportunities to play key roles on national and international committees.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.leeds.ac.uk /press/chancellor/burnell.htm</font> (375 words)</td></tr>
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