The Co Armagh woman responsible for the ground-breaking astronomy discovery of pulsars, and then denied a Nobel prize, has ...

50 years ago a young PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a remarkable discovery - what one of her colleagues described as "the greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century". She had ...

On a cold night in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell sits alone in an observatory, reading the data from a radio telescope. As the pattern in the data suddenly changes, she realises she has discovered an ...

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn Bell ... Soon after her discovery, Bell married and changed her name to Burnell. Her husband was a government employee, and his career took them to various ...

Rob's guest this week is the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Whilst still completing her PhD at Cambridge University Jocelyn made what is considered one of the greatest astronomical ...

That was until Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an appearance. The astrophysicist discovered pulsars, which are pulsating stars. The discovery happened by mistake, while Jocelyn was carrying out research ...

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn Bell. Born in Belfast ... Soon after her discovery, Bell married and changed her name to Burnell. Her husband was a government employee, and his career took them ...