Pulsars, Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts, by Jocelyn Bell Burnell - 2020-10-26
Channel: Cork Astronomy Club
Date: 2021-02-26

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. She was credited with "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century".

She is currently Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Mansfield College. She is a former President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and also former President of the Institute of Physics.

This "Lockdown Lecture" to the Cork Astronomy Club on 26 October 2020 was given via Zoom, in light of the restrictions imposed to combat the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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