After meticulously exposing and observing half-tone photographic plates, she found new tracks created by a new subatomic particle with 200 times the electronic mass. Chowdhuri and Bose could not access full-tone photographic plates because World War II was raging at the time. Bell Burnell discovered the signals in 1967 by analysing voluminous data from the Cambridge dipole array telescope. She was awarded the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize along with two others. She is the third woman to win the Physics Nobel in 118 years.

Source: The Telegraph April 01, 2019 06:45 UTC