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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Born July 15, 1943) is a British Astronomer who is known for discovering radio pulsars as a postgraduate student. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and attended both the University of Glasgow  until 1965 and then the University of Cambridge until 1969. She was a research assistant at Cambridge where she discovered the radio pulsars. She also taught as a professor at the University of Southampton, University college London, and Open University. She also worked at the Royal University in Edinburgh, and was dean of science at the University of Bath She accepted a post as a visiting professor at Oxford as well. She is a commander and Dame commander of the Order of the British Empire as well as president of the Royal Astronomical Society. She was president of the Institute of Physics for two years. She is known for one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our time. She has one son named Gavin Burnell and she was married to Martin Burnell from 1968 to 1993. Today she is a visiting professor at Oxford University, and an active advocate for women in science, encouraging and helping women get into scientific fields of study

Biography and Advancements in Science
Jocelyn was born on July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her father was an architect for the Armagh Observatory. As a child she showed great interest in the subject of Astronomy. She went to Lurgan college for Physics and obtained her degree from the University in 1965. After obtaining her degree in Physics from Lurgan she went to the University of Cambridge where she got her Doctorate degree in radio astronomy. While she was getting her doctorate in radio astronomy, she was a research attendant, she helped Anthony Hewish in constructing a massive radio telescope. In 1967, while she was analyzing print outs of the telescope, she discovered some regular radio pulses that they jokingly dubbed "Little Green Men" in the coming months saying that they could be from aliens. She told her adviser Hewish about this and they spent months experimenting and trying to figure out what these radio pulses were and where they came from. After months of research they concluded that the signals came from collapsed stars that were both dense, and spinning. These pulses were called Collapsed Star Pulsars. After this discovery, she went to England with her husband and worked part time for a number of years while she was raising their son, Gavin Burnell. While she was in England she began to learn about and study the many different kinds of wave spectrum and expanded her knowledge on them greatly. She worked at the University of Southampton from 1970-73 in a Junior teaching fellowship, and then was a professor at University college London for eight years from 1974-82. She did not receive the Nobel Peace prize for her efforts even though Anthony Hewish and Martin Pyle received it for the discovery, but maintained that it was right for her not to get it because she was a student researcher at the time. She has received many awards throughout the years for her discovery since not being rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She taught at many different places after University college London including Open University, and even was President of the Institute of Physics for a time. She was also the first female president of the Institute of Physics. She was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire 1999, and she was made a Dame in 2007. She became a visiting professor at Oxford university after she was the Dean of Science at the University in Bath from 2002 to 2004, where she still works today. She also does much work around the world advocating for women in science and giving talks about the subject. She speaks a lot in her travels about increasing the number of women in science and has donated millions of dollars from her award that she received in 2018 to charities for women in science.

Awards
She became a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969

She was awarded a $3 Million Dollar prize, the Special Breakthrough prize in 2018 that she donated all of which to a charity in the United Kingdom which supports physics graduate students from groups that are not represented as well in the field of physics.

She received the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize from the American Astronomical society. She was awarded this prize in 1989.

In 2010 she was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize for excellence in communicating science