Category: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

What, no scruff? Soon as the eyes fell on BBC's interview, by its HARDTALK presenter Stephen Sackur, with British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her career and especially her discovery as a student that a new radiotelescope was picking up strange fast-beating signals, I looked for the part about the scruff. This is what she saw on the long roll of paper with the signal, a little bunch of hash, at regular intervals.  To be sure she was just a grad student, and the telescope project idea was that of her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, and he got the Nobel Prize...