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Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Astrophysicist

Stephen Sackur speaks to Jocelyn Bell Burnell, one of the world's most renowned astrophysicists and a key member of the team that discovered pulsars and neutron stars in the 1960s.

Stephen Sackur speaks to a scientist of rare distinction. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a key member of the team which discovered pulsars and neutron stars in the late 1960s. She became one of the world's most renowned astrophysicists - remarkable not just for the originality of her research, but also for her gender. Throughout her career she has blazed a trail for women in a predominantly male world. Why are there so few women at science's top table?

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