Titans of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Titans of Science returns with Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered radio pulsars as a postgraduate student at Cambridge. Her work not only revolutionised the field of astrophysics, but inspired one of the most famous pieces of music artwork too... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:24.4	With me, Chris Smith.
0:26.0	And today, Titans of Science is back, kicking off with Jocelyn Bell Bennell.
0:30.9	She's the astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars in her early career at Cambridge.
0:36.2	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:52.4	Jocelyn Bell-Bernel, or Dame Jocelyn Belbenel. More dame Jocelyn Belbenel.
0:56.3	More accurately, isn't it?
0:57.3	It was born on the 15th of July, 1943 in Lurgan County Armagh.
1:01.6	She attended Lurgan College and then Mount School, which was a Quaker girls' boarding school in York,
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