#SpaceSunday with Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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“Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally…. If we assume we’ve arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing.”
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“I’m one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.”
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist, scholar, and trailblazer, who discovered radio pulsars when she was just a postgraduate student. Throughout her career, Jocelyn strived to improve the status of women within her field.
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However, Jocelyn was not credited with her contributions to discovering pulsars when the other members of her team received the Nobel Prize for Physics. As she was a graduate student at the time, as well as a woman, Jocelyn was not given the Nobel Prize but still received much praise from others who look up to her.