Categories
chemist

Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics goes to Jocelyn Bell Burnell for the discovery of pulsars

By Breakthrough Prize. Published on 24 September 2018 in:
Awards, News, September 2018, , , , ,

The Breakthrough Prize Recognises Bell Burnell’s 1967 Detection of Radio Signals from Rapidly Spinning, Super-Dense Neutron Stars and a Lifetime of Inspiring Scientific Leadership. 50 Years After Her Significant Role in the Discovery, Bell Burnell, of University of Oxford and University of Dundee, wins a $3 Million Physics Prize. Previous recipients of the special prize include Stephen Hawking, seven CERN scientists whose leadership led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and to the entire LIGO collaboration that detected gravitational waves.

Read On Comments Off
 International 

chemist