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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- )

British astronomer. Born on 15 July 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Jocelyn Bell graduated in physics from Glasgow University in 1965. She continued her research at Cambridge University with a PhD in radio astronomy, completing her dissertation in 1969. During her first two years at Cambridge she assisted in the construction of radio telescope used to track quasars. The telescope went into...

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