She Made the Discovery. He Won the Prize.

From the New York Times - 

She Changed Astronomy Forever.  He Won the Nobel Prize For It.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery.

But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked.

By Ben Proudfoot

Featuring Jocelyn Bell Burnell 

In 1967, Burnell made a discovery that altered our perception of the universe. As a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University assisting the astronomer Anthony Hewish, she discovered pulsars — compact, spinning celestial objects that give off beams of radiation, like cosmic lighthouses. (A visualization of some early pulsar data is immortalized as the album art for Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures.”)

But as the short documentary above shows, the world wasn’t yet ready to accept that a breakthrough in astrophysics could have come from a young woman.

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