Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a visiting professor in the University of Oxford Department of Physics.

Before attending Prof. Dame Bell Burnell’s talk, we recommend viewing “I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It.” by the New York Times.

Talk title: “The discovery of pulsars – a grad student’s tale”

In this talk I will describe how the discovery of pulsars came about accidentally and what we can learn from a story like this.