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Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the Northern Irish scientist whose 1967 pulsar discovery opened a major field in radio astr...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

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William Herschel was a German-born British astronomer who discovered Uranus in 1781 and built large reflecting telescope...

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Ewine van Dishoeck

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Victoria Kaspi

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Richard Ellis

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8.7 Great

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Marcia Rieke

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Fiona Harrison

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8.3 Great

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Margaret Geller

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