Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
From one particular piece of the sky an unclassifiable signal sometimes recurred and my brain started to say: “You’ve seen something like this before, haven’t you? You’ve seen something like this before from this bit of the sky , haven’t you?” I got out previous recordings from that bit of sky. It often wasn’t there, but when it was, it was keeping its place amongst the stars.
Recorded
Louise Walsh, University of Cambridge 'Journeys of Discovery' interview series, 1 January 2020
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