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Radio Ulster,22 mins

Dame Jocelyn Burnell

Sunday Sequence

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Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsar when she was a student in 1967 and her discovery changed the world of astronomy. While her discovery won the Nobel prize, it wasn't awarded to her, but to her supervisor

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