Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“Science and Religion: A Quaker Astrophysicist Reflects.”

The Moll Chair of Faith and Life at Baldwin-Wallace College is proud to present a lecture by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, visiting Professor of Astrophysics University of Oxford UK. As a postgraduate student, she discovered the first radio pulsar with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish, for which he won a Nobel Prize. Because of the extremely regular radio signal, it was thought, at first, to be signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence. So it was designated LGM1, for little green men 1.

After finishing her PhD, Dr. Bell Burnell worked at the University of Southampton, University College London and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. She was also a visiting professor at Princeton University, and Dean of Science at the University of Bath. Among her numerous awards are the Michelson Medal, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize and the Herschel Medal. In June 2007 she was awarded a Dame Commander by Queen Elizabeth II.

The Burrell Memorial Observatory is pleased to collaborate with this event by opening the observatory after the lecture.

Contact for questions: Gary Kader, Observatory Director at [email protected]

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