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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, quiet revolutionary, wins $3MM prize for pulsars discovery

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, quiet revolutionary, wins $3MM prize for pulsars discovery

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Post by EvilMonkeyMat » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 9:06 AM UTC

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, quiet revolutionary, wins $3MM prize for pulsars discovery
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Post by ColinWright » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 9:48 AM UTC

... and she immediately donates it to a fund a scholarship to help counter "unconscious bias" in physics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45425872

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Post by EvilMonkeyMat » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 9:59 AM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #2

... and she immediately donates it to a fund a scholarship to help counter "unconscious bias" in physics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45425872

Yes. What an amazing woman.

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Post by snapetom » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 9:04 PM UTC

One of the pulsars she discovered was the basis for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures' iconic image.

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