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Pulsar discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3-million Breakthrough Prize
Fifty years afterdiscovering pulsars — compact rotating stars that emit beams of radiation — astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded one of the most lucrative prizes in science: a US$3-millionBreakthrough prize. Thought by many to have been snubbed for a Nobel prize for the discovery1, Bell Burnell, 75, has been recognized by the Breakthrough committee with a special award in fundamental physics for both her scientific achievements and her “inspiring leadership” over the past five decades.
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Nature561, 161 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06210-w
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