In what year was Bell Burnell born?
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1943
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1935
Answer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born in 1943 in Northern Ireland. She was a physics student at the University of Glasgow when she discovered the first pulsar, a rotating neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves. Her discovery was a major breakthrough in astronomy and earned her the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974.
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