Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
— Jocelyn Bell Burnell
My father was an architect.
I didn't always have research jobs.
I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.
We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.
