"In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked."24 July 2021Factual16 mins
Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.
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