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Also Known As Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell • Susan Jocelyn Bell
Born July 15, 1943 (age 83) • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2021)
Subjects Of Study neutron star

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 1967
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Peter Higgs
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William Hyde Wollaston
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Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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James Chadwick
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Airy, c. 1877
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Sir Harold Jeffreys
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Nevil Maskelyne
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Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
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Stephen Hawking
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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
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Galileo
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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
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Gian Domenico Cassini.
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