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| | Jocelyn Bell |
 | | Lead by Professor Antony Hewish, Cambridge graduate student Jocelyn Bell was surveying the sky for scintillation phenomena due to interplanetary plasma in a certain radio frequency range.(Chiu, p.965) Among the expected random noises, Bell noted a repeating signal. |
 | | Jocelyn Bell's discoveries and research initiated one of the major movements in radio astrophysics, and the lack of acknowledgement, and possible future scientific status, is evidence of the hierarchical and gender bias found in science today. |
 | | Working as a graduate student at Cambridge University, Jocelyn Bell was the first to discover this amazing phenomenon, but in spite of documentation attesting to her principal role, the credit for the work and discovery went to her professor Antony Hewish in the form of a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974. |
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