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It was not easy for scientist Jocelyn Bell Burnell to become an astrophysicist. Growing up in a Quaker family in 1940s Northern Ireland, she soon realized that her enthusiasm for science would collide with a society in the hands of men.
In 1967, during a PhD at Cambridge University as an assistant to astronomer Anthony Hewish, Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, compact, rotating celestial bodies that emit beams of radiation. But the world was not ready to accept that a young woman made a decisive contribution to the development of astrophysics. And so the Nobel Prize in Physics due to the discovery of Bell Burnell was won by his superior.
The New York Times video.
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