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born 1943 Northern Ireland
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born Susan Jocelyn Bell on 15 July 1943), known as Jocelyn Bell Burnell, is a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish. This discovery was included in the citation when Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Martin Ryle.
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Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Scientists should never claim that something is absolutely true. You should never claim perfect, or total, or 100% because you never ever get there.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
If we assume we've arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
By the end of my PhD I could swing a sledgehammer.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
One of the things women bring to a research project, or indeed any project, is they come from a different place, they've got a different background.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
There is now a thirteenth commandment "Thou shalt not make predictions in x-ray astronomy, lest the Lord thy God reveal the folly of thy ways unto all."
Science is a quest for understanding.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
The girls got sent to the domestic science room and the boys to the science lab. ... I protested — unsuccessfully.
I feel we are in that kind of phase.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.
Beautiful Minds (2010)
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