Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Education• Work Experience• Related Activities• Honors and Awards• Discoveries

Education

Mount School, York, England(1956-1961) University of Glasgow(1965): B.S in Physics

• Cambridge University

• PhD in Radio Astronomy (1969)

Work Experience

• (1968-70): Research Council, Univ. South Hampton, England

• (1970-73): Physics Teacher, Univ. South Hampton, England

• (1973-76): The Observatory Editor

• (1974-76): Graduate Programmer, Mullard Space Science Lab, University College, London

• (1976-82): Associate Research Fellow, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

• (1982-86): Senior Science Officer, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

• (1991-Present) Currently Professor Of Physics and Dept. Chair, Open Univ., England

Related Activities

• Member, Royal Astronomical Society• Member, American Astronomical

Society• Chair & Member, European

Commission Physics Panel

Honors and Awards

• (1973): Michelson Medal Franklin Institute, Philly• (1978): J.Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize for Theoretical

Studies, Miami• (1987): Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, A.A Society• (1989): Herschel Medal, Royal Astronomical Society• (1995): Jansky Award, National Radio Astronomy Observatory • (1999): Commander of British Empire Award, for services to

astronomy

Discoveries

• Built a radio telescope• Detected a rapid pulse

with telescope that were reoccurring

• Located beyond the solar system

• Within a few months discovered 3 more pulsating radio sources

• Later found to be rapidly rotating neutron stars

Thank You………