Today we're featuring Jocelyn Bell Burnell's short documentary "I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize For It."
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| Jocelyn Bell Burnell attends the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting at Pasadena, California, January 5, 1987. Photo: American Institute of Physics (AIP) via Wikimedia. |
In this short documentary by Ben Proudfoot, Bell Burnell tells her story about being raised as a Quaker, her struggle being the only woman in the room in STEM, and how hard it was to pursue that path against the attitude that women were to be in the home. Bell discovered pulsars as a PhD graduate student at Cambridge University, but Proudfoot's documentary reveals why she was not credited at the time.
Of course, Jocelyn Bell Burnell is both famous and deserving of recognition for her discovery and her career.
YouTube: New York Times Opinion 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs. "I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won The Nobel Prize For It.
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