Three instincts mingled in the delight which greeted the award of the Breakthrough science prize to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell this week. The first was a kind of renewed awe at her landmark achievement: the dramatic discovery of pulsars in the 1970s. The second was a sense of justice served, given that she was notoriously overlooked for a Nobel. How easily she might have been deterred – and how much science would have lost. But it is better news for science as a whole.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2018 17:37 UTC