PSR B1919+21
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PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 28 November 1967, it is the first-discovered radio pulsar. The power a
Chart on which Jocelyn Bell Burnell first recognised evidence of PSR B1919+21, exhibited at Cambridge University Library
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar. This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physi
PSR B1919+21
…PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 28 November 1967, it is the first-discovered radio pulsar. The power and regularity of its signal were briefly thought to resemble an extraterrestrial…
Bell Burnell in 2009
Jocelyn Bell, June 1967
Composite Optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar