Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Quaker Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not among the awardees.

She is active in the Religious Society of Friends, having served as Clerk to the sessions of Britain Yearly Meeting, Clerk of the Central Executive Committee of Friends World Committee for Consultation, and delivered a Swarthmore Lecture and James Backhouse Lecture.

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