# Jocelyn Bell Burnell (@jocelyn-bell-burnell)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars while a graduate student at Cambridge. Her painstaking recognition of an unusual repeating signal in 1967 opened a new way to study neutron stars, gravity, and the interstellar medium.

She later built a wide-ranging research and academic leadership career and became an influential advocate for greater inclusion in physics. At Oxford she is a professorial fellow of Mansfield College and a visiting academic in physics.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Jocelyn Bell Burnell's public record._

## Topics

- [Credit and Scientific Recognition](/@jocelyn-bell-burnell/credit-and-scientific-recognition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Finding the First Pulsars](/@jocelyn-bell-burnell/finding-the-first-pulsars.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Leadership and Widening Access](/@jocelyn-bell-burnell/leadership-and-widening-access.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://royalsociety.org/people/jocelyn-bellburnell-11066/
- blog: https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/11/dame-jocelyn-bell-burnell-portrait-unveiled/
- blog: https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3830

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "jocelyn-bell-burnell", "question": "…"}`.