Address, "Petit four," about the discovery of pulsars, given at the 8th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, 1977.

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Address, "Petit four," about the discovery of pulsars, given at the 8th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, 1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83226858

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Jocelyn Burnell is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients. Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneh...