“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” This famous quote by Isaac Newton points to an axiom that lies at the heart of The Sciences — knowledge ...

Rob's guest this week is the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Whilst still completing her PhD at Cambridge University Jocelyn made what is considered one of the greatest astronomical ...

And I wonder what sort of person might wear this? I'm Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell. I'm an astrophysicist and I discovered radio pulsars. I now work in Oxford University, and the objects you've ...

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look back at the year in science, and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell features in Titans of Science. Show more Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists ...

When pulsars were first discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, some proposed the frequent and highly regular periodic pulsing of these remnants to be signals from intelligent life everywhere ...

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn Bell. Born in Belfast ... Soon after her discovery, Bell married and changed her name to Burnell. Her husband was a government employee, and his career ...