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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a grad student at Cambridge in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars!

Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library

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• Black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burrell, when she was a graduate student, holding a printout on a roll of paper and standing in front of a large radio dish. She is wearing a coat and glasses, smiling and looking toward the camera.