From the Big Bang to the death of stars in violent supernovae, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells the fascinating story of the origins of the elements, and shows that we are all quite literally made of star stuff.

Jocelyn is an astrophysicist, best known for her discovery of pulsars — rotating neutron stars that appear to ‘pulse’ since the beam of light they emit can only be seen when it faces the Earth. The observation is considered to be one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the twentieth century.

In 1967, Jocelyn made her discovery using a telescope that she and her supervisor Antony Hewish had originally built to study the recently detected star-like quasars. She noted a signal that pulsed once every second — ‘Little Green Man 1’ — that was later determined to be a pulsar. Jocelyn has since become a role model for young students and female scientists throughout the world.
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Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, speaking to students at the 40th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, ISS2019: Frontier Science — The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2019.

Jocelyn's second ISS lecture on "Weird and Wonderful Wave Phenomena":    • Weird and Wonderful Wave Phenomena — ...  
The ISS2019 Playlist:    • ISS2019: Frontier Science  

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