Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsar, during her postgrad in 1967, this went on to earn her supervisor the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, with little to no recognition of her contribution. In 2018 she received The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and donated the $3million prize money to create a bursary to help female, minority and refugee students become physics researchers. Jocelyn is the perfect example of a woman overlooked for her contribution to her scientific field who continued undeterred and aims to improve the field of physics by making it more diverse place.
Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars, fascinating astronomical objects that emit electromagnetic radiation in a regular pattern. They had never been observed before. She made her discovery in August 1967, after painstakingly analyzing data from a new telescope she had helped build. On December of the same year, she discovered a second pulsar. Her breakthrough discovery was the result of paying attention to small details, an example of seeing something where no one else sees anything. Her scientific career was moving forward against the expectations of everyone around her: her university, her colleagues, and most scientific institutions.
