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World Service,26 Sep 1995,28 mins

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Eureka

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Interview with Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars while studying under Antony Hewish, for which Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Martin Ryle, while she was excluded. "I can remember the day the news came through - and at that stage I was working in x-ray astronomy...someone came in with the news and I was delighted! It was the first time the prize had gone to astronomy!"

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