Jocelyn Bell Burnell
乔斯林·贝尔·伯奈尔
Discoverer of Pulsars
“I feel I've done very well out of not getting a Nobel Prize.”
“我觉得没获得诺贝尔奖让我的人生过得很好。”
— From public lectures and interviews
Biography
As a graduate student in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars — rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit regular pulses of radio waves. The 1974 Nobel Prize for this discovery was controversially awarded to her supervisor Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle, excluding Bell Burnell. Despite this injustice, she has had an extraordinary career in astrophysics and donated the entire £2.3 million from her 2018 Breakthrough Prize to fund scholarships for underrepresented physics students.
1967年，作为研究生的乔斯林·贝尔·伯奈尔发现了脉冲星——快速旋转的中子星，发射规则的射电脉冲。1974年诺贝尔奖因这一发现颁发给了她的导师安东尼·休伊什和马丁·赖尔，争议性地将贝尔·伯奈尔排除在外。尽管遭受了这种不公正，她在天体物理学方面取得了非凡的职业成就，并将2018年突破奖的全部230万英镑捐赠用于资助代表性不足的物理学生奖学金。
Key Achievements
Discovered pulsars as a graduate student (1967)
作为研究生发现脉冲星（1967年）
Donated £2.3M Breakthrough Prize to student scholarships
将230万英镑突破奖全部捐赠给学生奖学金
Served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society
担任皇家天文学会主席
References & Citations
- Wikipedia: Jocelyn Bell Burnell — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
- Burnell, J.B. 'Little Green Men, White Dwarfs, or Pulsars?' Cosmic Search, 1977.
