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Recordings of talk by Dr Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 1988-02-26

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Reference Code: GBR/2511/LS/DLS/R/1988/6

Scope and Contents

Lecture given by Dr Jocelyn Bell Burnell titled Pulsars

Dates

  • Creation: 1988-02-26

Creator

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Copyright Information

There are documents in the archive which says the author agreed to the publishing of the written text of their lecture. There is documentation confirming that the author was paid for the copyright of the article, but the text was never published. Therefore, it is not clear if the college retained the copyright to this lecture.

Biographical / Historical

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist.
She completed a PhD in 1969 at New Hall, Cambridge. Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, a discovery earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974.

Extent

1 cassette(s)

Language of Materials

English

Processing Information

The cassette recording of the Dr Jocelyn Bell Burnell talk, catalogued as GBR/2511/LS/DLS/R/1988/6/1, has been digitised.

Repository Details

Part of the Darwin College Archives Repository

Contact:
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