Yesterday the BBC reported that Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate her £2.3m Breakthrough Prize award to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers. She received this prize for her discovery of radio pulsars – being a research student at the time she was not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery her collaborators received.
FAN volunteers are currently sorting and cataloguing the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) archive that we received a few years ago from the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. Amongst that collection are a series of wonderful Women in Science educational booklets produced by Shell and Jocelyn Bell Burnell is one of the women featured in that series –