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Jocelyn Bell Burnell on being denied a Nobel Prize

The Life Scientific

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In an interview with Jim Al-Khalili in 2011, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell explains why she thinks her contribution to the discovery of pulsars went unrecognised by the Nobel Committee when they awarded the 1974 Prize for Physics.

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