Lecture by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

7th Stephen Gray Lecture 9th March 2023

The University of Kent, Division of Natural Sciences hosted the 7th Stephen Gray Lecture with guest host Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the University of Oxford, with Mansfield College, and Dundee University. Jocelyn is an astrophysicist hailing from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars. She has also been a global champion of women in science for many decades. Her lecture was based around astronomy and poetry, the later being a hobby of hers which has developed over the years.

From Jocelyn’s study of astronomy and poetry, we can see that there are several poems dedicated to the theme.

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