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Overlooked for the Nobel: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

30 Sep 2020 Matin Durrani

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced on Tuesday 6 October. In the run-up to the announcement, Physics World editors have picked some of the people who they think have been overlooked for a prize in the past

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysics pioneer: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (centre) thinks she missed out on a Nobel prize for discovering pulsars because she was a student at the time (Courtesy: Institute of Physics)
I’ve met Jocelyn Bell Burnell twice. The first was when I sat next to her at a dinner in London in

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Matin Durrani is editor-in-chief of Physics World
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