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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the Northern Irish scientist whose 1967 pulsar discovery opened a major field in radio astronomy.
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars as a Cambridge graduate student in 1967.
Shri Kulkarni is an Indian-American Caltech astronomer known for work on pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, and optical transients; he won the 2024 Shaw Prize.
Joseph Taylor is an American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize for discovering the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar at Arecibo in 1974.
Victoria Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist at McGill known for pulsars and magnetars, and she won the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Russell Hulse is an American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize with Joseph Taylor for finding the first binary pulsar in 1974.
Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist at West Virginia University whose FRB and pulsar work was recognized with the 2023 Shaw Prize.
Duncan Lorimer is a British-born astrophysicist at West Virginia University whose team reported the first fast radio burst, FRB 010724, in 2007.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a pioneering British astrophysicist renowned for her discovery of the first radio pulsars in 1967 while a graduate student at Cambridge University. Her meticulous observations revolutionized our understanding of these rapidly rotating neutron stars and dramatically advanced t...
Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist who helped propose the steady-state theory in 1948 and explained pulsars as rotating neutron stars.
