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SUMMARY:A Conversation between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Professor 
 Dame Jocelyn Bell - Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell\, Visiting Professor of As
 trophysics\, Department of Astrophysics\, University of Oxford
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DESCRIPTION:A series of conversations with distinguished academics hosted 
 by Professor Dame Athene Donald.\n\nWhat do academics actually do? What mo
 tivates them to get out of bed each morning and to deliver what is — or 
 in many cases what isn't - expected of them?\n\nFor a student setting out\
 , the life of senior academics may seem very mysterious\, particularly as 
 many may end up taking on responsibilities and activities far removed from
  where an individual started. The trajectory from student to senior academ
 ic is rarely a straight line\, with twists\, setbacks\, timeout and/or opp
 ortunities (taken or declined) all to be combined with a personal life.  \
 n\nThis series of conversations aims to explore the individual paths of so
 me eminent academics who have made it to the top in their own particular w
 ays. How have they found their own solutions to 'life'\, what tips do they
  wish they'd been given earlier on\, and what might they view\, retrospect
 ively\, with most pleasure or regret? \n\nThe next in this series of conve
 rsations will be with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell — the astrophysicist rec
 ently awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for he
 r discovery of pulsars in 1967\, but who was passed over for the Nobel pri
 ze at the time.\n\nDame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist\, best k
 nown for her discovery of pulsars — rotating neutron stars that appear t
 o ‘pulse’ since the beam of radio waves they emit can only be seen whe
 n it faces the Earth. Her observation\, made together with her supervisor\
 , Antony Hewish\, is considered to be one of the greatest astronomical dis
 coveries of the twentieth century.\n\nIn 1967\, Jocelyn made her discovery
  using a telescope that she and Antony had originally built to study the r
 ecently detected star-like quasars. She noted a signal that pulsed once ev
 ery second — nicknamed ‘Little Green Men’ — that was later determi
 ned to be a pulsar. Antony went on to receive the 1974 Nobel Prize in Phys
 ics for his role in the discovery.\n\nJocelyn has since become a role mode
 l for young students and female scientists throughout the world. She was a
 ppointed to CBE for services to astronomy in 1999\, followed by a DBE in 2
 007. Her story was featured in the BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds\, and BBC 
 Two’s Horizon documented her discovery of ‘Little Green Man 1’.\n\nS
 he is currently Visiting Professor of Astrophysics\, Department of Astroph
 ysics\, University of Oxford and Chancellor\, University of Dundee.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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