Observation by Alex Pratt: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - John Stewart...

Uploaded by

Alex Pratt

Observer

Alex Pratt

Observed

2024 Sep 19 - 09:40

Uploaded

2024 Dec 05 - 21:19

Objects

Historical

Equipment

Mobile phone

Location

Belfast City Hall

Target name

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - John Stewart Bell - Belfast City Hall

Title

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - John Stewart Bell - Belfast City Hall

About this image

Belfast City Hall has a Visitor Exhibition which explains the history of the city and there’s also display panels about its famous citizens. The International Achievers section highlights Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Dr John Stewart Bell.

Dame Jocelyn was the guest keynote speaker at the 11^th May BAA meeting in Greenock and she’s well known for her discovery of pulsars. It was a major breakthrough in astrophysics but considered too early in her career to share the Nobel Prize in Physics which went to her PhD supervisor Antony Hewish, and Martin Ryle.

Dr John Bell did advanced theoretical work on quantum theory and quantum entanglement, proposing his Bell’s Theorem. It’s believed he was being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics but sadly he passed away that year (and it is not awarded posthumously).

Files associated with this observation

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - John Stewart Bell_20240919_ARP.jpg (1.6 MB)

Like this image

Martina McGovern, Robin Leadbeater, Tim Haymes

Copyright of all images and other observations submitted to the BAA remains with the owner of the work. Reproduction of work by third parties is expressly forbidden without the consent of the copyright holder. By submitting images to this online gallery, you grant the BAA permission to reproduce them in any of our publications.

Registered charity no. 210769
Registered company no. 117572

For more information including contact details, click here.

Our Terms of Use are here.

Our Privacy Policy is here.