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28 November, 1967 - 24-year old physicist and PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars.

She prototyped and helped build the array telescope which consisted of wires and cables strung over a space the size of 57 tennis courts.

The subsequent 1974 "No-Bell" Prize in Physics was awarded to her advisor and another physicist but she was left out because she was a graduate student (and a woman).

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars
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1. Pic of Jocelyn Bell Burnell with the array telescope in the background

2. A chart displaying a graph of a time-varying signal with a hand-written note - "First observation of pulses from CP 1919, 28 November, 1967."