Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
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Working as a lone woman in the physics department at Cambridge University, she was responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, but she hasn’t been recognized until now.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell spent years being ridiculed in the 60s for being a woman in a man’s world, laying miles of cables to set up the radio astronomy equipment that allowed her to gaze at the skies behind a telescope.
Under the direction of a man, Antony Hewish, a scientist who was searching for quasars (bright objects with unknown origins), the grad student pored over the data for months.
Then, one day in 1967, she discovered four gently pulsing sources of radio waves that were emanating from different points in the galaxy—and knew she’d discovered something important.
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