Physics – Physics Education
Scientific paper
May 1996
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Physics Education, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 183-186 (1996).
Physics
Physics Education
Scientific paper
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is Professor of Physics and Head of Department at the Open University, the UK's largest university. She was brought up in Northern Ireland, attended a Quaker girls boarding school in York, and read Physics at Glasgow University. As a research student in Cambridge, in the 1960s, she was involved in the discovery of the first pulsars - a discovery that opened up a new branch of astrophysics and led to the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. She subsequently worked at Southampton University and at University College London before joining the staff of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, where she managed the James Clerk Maxwell telescope in Hawaii as a joint facility for British, Dutch and Canadian astronomers. Her own research has involved observations in most parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. She has been the recipient of the Oppenheimer Prize, the Michelson Medal, the Tinsley Prize, the Royal Astronomical Society's Herschel Medal, and of several honorary degrees. The public understanding of science has always been important to her, and she is much in demand as a speaker and broadcaster. In 1991, the number of female professors of physics in the UK was doubled by her appointment to the Open University, and she hopes that her much publicized presence there will encourage more women to feel that physics is for them.
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