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Hi! Okay so your discovery is about pulsurs. Could explain this to me. -- 68.108.153.159
im diong a project which requires a collage so yeah im in need of many many pictures
Someone had added JBB to this category. The category is under consideration for deletion at [1], where I have added my twopennyworth === Vernon White (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
This deserves some mention in the article. She has served as
Clerk of London Yearly Meeting (now
Britain Yearly Meeting) (dates should be available from Recording Clerk's Office, or from Documents in Advance if your local meeting's library has a complete series) but also continues to give talks on Science and Religion to various meetings within RSoF, and no doubt a whole lot more I don't know about.
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NSH001 22:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't like this subject being named as "Bell", the surname of her father. She is also named as "Bell Burnell". She was known as "Jocelyn Burnell" during the period of her fairly long marriage. The heading has her as "Jocelyn Bell Burnell", with a redirect from "Jocelyn Bell" and several pages linked to "Jocelyn Bell". There's also a redirect from "Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell" , with one article linked to it. The alternative names in the Persondata box are confusingly presented. Can we agree on a standard form of name, other than "Bell" and sort out the redirects and linked pages, please? Vernon White . . . Talk 15:45, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I have deleted an edit mentioning again the failure to award the Nobel Prize to Hewish's research assistant.
THIS WAS A THIRD MENTION OF THE TOPIC.
Surely this topic should not dominate the article . . . Bell Burnell has herself, modestly accepted that the common practice is to honour the head of a research team. If she had received early recognition, her achievements may have been less than what she has done without the Nobel honour. Perhaps we could re-focus the article on these achievements. === Vernon White . . . Talk 08:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Here's a Fourth !!
Being from Northern Ireland I took a great interest in Ms Bell's Beautiful Mind programme last night on BBC 4!!
I was greatly amused at Mr Hewish's explanation that it was the Captain of the Ship who got the credit and not the crew member who shouted "Land Ho ". Well to expand on his analogy Ms Bell had been shouting Land Ho for some time before he gave up scolding her and took any notice . So it was more like :- "Land ho Captain!!"
"No it isn't it is probably just low level cloud you stupid girl !! " "No Captain Land Ho ! " Crunch the ship hits bottom ." Er OK Land Ho it is - I'VE discovered America !!
Hewish just showed himself up. He would not get away with crap like that today. Looks like he didn't as credit has been duly awarded to the Beautiful Mind - Ms Jocelyn Bell Burnell . It all makes me wonder if a bit of the old Discrimination had taken place. We will all just have to wonder. ( If you are born in Northern Ireland you are Irish AND British but you will tend to sound Irish !! or maybe Scottish if you are from Ballymena !! ) Domnal5 ( talk) 10:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I enjoyed the article and she is more famous for not being Nobel-famous. Especially with young college astronomy students. -- Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 23:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
There is so much talk about her not being apart of the group to win the Nobel Prize, but this is not the only thing that she is known for or did in her career. so why is there so much emphasize on this subject. However, this is important to keep thsi information as to inform readers of the potential inequalities that women are facing in STEM fields. Dpboyer ( talk) 06:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC) talk
_____________ Jocelyn's argument that Nobel prizes should not be awarded to research students except in exceptional cases would be a great deal more persuasive if the Nobel awarded to Richard Mössbauer were not a similar discovery, and one of less significance than her own. After all, many people have heard of pulsars - but I challenge you to find a typical person in the street who ever heard of the Mössbauer effect, still less its significance. 115.188.59.94 ( talk) 01:07, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
The picture someone has added is about 30 years old. Do we need it? Vernon White . . . Talk 21:09, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Current picture looks good to me. What would she thing? -- Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 23:15, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I also can't work out to edit the references section. Reference 32 is now a dead link but for the purposes of this page : http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/extlttlgrnmn.htm would serve as a substitute . Could someone change this for me ? And is there information somewhere about how to change the references ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southof40 ( talk • contribs) 22:03, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Can't work out how to edit the references section... Minor correction should be made: reference 3 lists 'Longhair, Martin' as the author; it is, in fact, 'Longhair, Malcolm'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.23.169 ( talk • contribs) 02:31, 13 April 2010
Such information is usually present in biographical articles, in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
Why is there no sign that she had a life outside her work? There is no mention of her husband, Martin Burnell, or her son, Gavin Burnell.
Dpboyer (
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Is there a specific reason why it has been omitted from this particular biography? — Preceding
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86.161.61.136 (
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http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/bell.html http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/31792.html (mentions marriage, son, separation) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Burnell,[email protected] (husband, son) http://www.physics.ucla.eduperience /~cwp/Phase2/Burnell,[email protected] (husband, son) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.61.136 ( talk) 23:25, 27 August 2013 (UTC) http://www.famousscientists.org/jocelyn-bell-burnell/.html (mentions husband, son, divorce) Dpboyer ( talk) 06:18, 5 November 2014 (UTC) talk
This is given as Northern Irish. I am not sure that this has any legal basis.
The fact that the pulsar followed astronomical time and not solar time showed that it was caused by a star or the like and not a radio broadcast on earth.
Being a successful women in a STEM field, there should be a section that talks about her experience and struggles she faced as a women in the field. Hearing the struggles, experiences, and success of Bell Burnell's time could be inspiring and motivating to young women interested in the field. It is also a hit of reality that there are still problems today dealing with integrating woman in the STEM fields. Dpboyer ( talk) 06:43, 5 November 2014 (UTC) talk
There are some interesting quotes in this article from Bell burnell about her thoughts of being a women in a male dominated field that could be used in this possible future section or paragraph of her background.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/mar/08/jocelyn-bell-burnell-100-women.html Dpboyer ( talk) 06:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC) talk
I can recall an early dramatisation of her life (telling the story of the discovery of pulsars) which was made in the 1970s or 1980s iirc. Does anyone remember what this was called so that it can be included? LeapUK ( talk) 08:38, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
The birthplace is listed as Lurgan, C. Armagh but sources (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne's Nobel Prize Women In Science (2002)) refer to Belfast as her birthplace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jl sg ( talk • contribs) 11:54, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Not a good idea to edit Wikipedia continuously with little or no sleep! I see that Ceoil has been making rapid-fire edits, with only a few short breaks, from 09:38 on 27 January to 11:52 on 28 January.
His or her most egregious edit was to edit this page to say that JBB had won the Nobel Prize, when the article clearly says the opposite. This user then went on to remove the post-nominals, in contravention of MOS:POSTNOM. He or she also removed the section on JBB's marriage with the edit summary "trim". A BLP subject's marriage is always important, especially as, in this case, it affects the name by which she is to be referred. Note also that her marriage and name have already been discussed above on this talk page. In fact, I think the article would benefit from more information on her personal life, but I am reluctant to add it myself, as JBB is known to me personally (we used to live in the same town when her son Gavin was a small boy, although we were members of different Quaker meetings).
I have started work on a major re-vamp of this article, with a view to bringing it up to at least GA status.
Although Ceoil's work does include some useful edits, Ceoil has made additional changes which are dubious or debatable. In my opinion, any future edits he or she makes to this page need to be very carefully scrutinised. -- NSH001 ( talk) 14:07, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
I was surprised to see that the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh was missing from the list of institutions in the top sidebar. Peter R Hastings 12:21, 11 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by P R Hastings ( talk • contribs)
When adding the word Special, my edit description asked whether it was 2018 or 2019 as it will be presented with the 2019 ordinary prizes in November 2018. But I have since learned that their website describes it as the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize for... Tlhslobus ( talk) 15:09, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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