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Also Known As Susan Jocelyn Bell • Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Born July 15, 1943 (age 81) • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2021)
Subjects Of Study neutron star

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William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
John Couch Adams
British astronomer
Nevil Maskelyne, detail from an engraving by E. Scriven after a portrait by Vanderburgh.
Nevil Maskelyne
British astronomer
Charles Hatchett
British chemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer

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