The 2023 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The Physics Department is excited to announce that our distinguished speaker is Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Prof. Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist. She was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and has subsequently worked in gamma ray, Xray, infrared and millimeter wavelength astronomy. Her discovery of pulsars as a graduate student opened up a new branch of astrophysics work recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. She currently holds a Professorial Fellowship in Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and is a Visiting Academic in the University's Department of Physics.

Prof. Bell Burnell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Astronomy and Promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize (2010) and a Royal Medal (2015) by the Royal Society and holds major awards from French, Spanish and USA bodies. A member of 7 Academies worldwide, she was the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (as well as of the Institute of Physics).