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

by EvilMonkeyMat on 9/6/18, 9:06 AM with 3 comments

• by ColinWright on 9/6/18, 9:48 AM

  ... 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

• by snapetom on 9/6/18, 9:04 PM

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