[AstroNet] Public Lecture at UCT

[Kevin Govender]

Hi all
Quick notice of a public lecture in Cape Town by the discoverer of pulsars.
Please see below and spread the word.
Regards
Kevin



National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme Colloquium Series

Public Lecture -  All welcome!

Date:    THURSDAY 6th March

Time:    1pm

Venue:    New Science Lecture Theatre, Zoology building, UCT

Title:    In Pursuit of Pulsars

Speaker:    Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell


Jocelyn Bell Burnell earned her doctorate in radio astronomy from 
Cambridge University in 1969. She subsequently worked right across the 
(electromagnetic) spectrum of astronomy. Bell Burnell has also been an 
outstanding leader of research, an enthusiastic communicator of science 
and a champion of women in science. After three years as Dean of Science 
at the University of Bath, Jocelyn Bell Burnell "retired" in 2004 and 
moved to a Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford and a 
Professorial Fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Bell Burnell is perhaps best known for her discovery of pulsars in 1967 
as a graduate student at Cambridge. The discovery, published in the 
journal Nature in 1968, resulted from her analysis of enormous amounts 
of data collected from a radio telescope built by her and other research 
assistants of advisor, Anthony Hewish, to study quasars. Although Bell 
Burnell's role in the discovery of pulsars was not acknowledged by the 
Nobel Committee when they awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics to 
Hewish and co-recipient Martin Ryle, she has received many other 
prestigious awards and medals for her discovery and other contributions 
to astronomy.





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