Getting Credit Five Decades Later

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars: rapidly spinning stars the size of a city, but with the mass of the sun. The 24 year-old grad student’s discovery received the Nobel prize, but it was awarded to her advisor. Now, Burnell’s been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, $3,000,000, and long overdue recognition for her work!

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