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Tag Archives: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Stellar Eavesdropper
On July 15, 1943, British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born. As a research student, Bell Burnell assisted in the physical construction and operation of a Cambridge university radio telescope, consisting of thousands of poles wired and cabled over … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, discovery of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, July 15, On This Day, PSR B1919+21, pulsars, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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