Jocelyn Bell Burnell
La Palma has it’s own version of the stars in Hollywood Boulevard. Ours are stars from astronomyrather than show business and we don’t have nearly so many of them, but in October we got a fifth star, Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She discovered pulsars in the 1960s, so they gave the Nobel Prize to her boss and her boss’s boss, but not her. She’s physically a small lady. She’s 81 now,…
