The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and the arts, has appointed its first female president. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist credited with one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century. She was a doctoral student at Cambridge University when she discovered the first pulsars. The rapidly […]
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and the arts, has appointed its first female president. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist credited with one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century. She was a doctoral student at Cambridge University when she discovered the first pulsars. The rapidly […]