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X-WR-CALNAME:The 2023 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture: Dr. Jocelyn Bell 
 Burnell -  “Tick\, tick\, tick pulsating star\, how we wonder what you a
 re.”
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DESCRIPTION:Jocelyn Bell Burnell\nUniversity of Oxford\n\nEvening Public Le
 cture (7:30 PM on Thursday\, May 11\, 2023)\nLocation: William R. Hewlett 
 Teaching Center\, room 201 (370 Jane Stanford Way)\n\nThe Physics Departme
 nt 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\, X-ray\, infrared and 
 millimetre wavelength astronomy. Her discovery of pulsars as a graduate st
 udent opened up a new branch of astrophysics – work recognized by the aw
 ard of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. She currently holds a Professorial
  Fellowship in Mansfield College\, University of Oxford\, and is a Visitin
 g Academic in the University's Department of Physics.\n\nProf. Bell Burnel
 l was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for ser
 vices to Astronomy and Promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the Brit
 ish Empire. She was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize (2010) and a Royal M
 edal (2015) by the Royal Society and holds major awards from French\, Span
 ish 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 Inst
 itute of Physics).\n\nProf. Bell Burnell attended the University of Glasgo
 w where she received a bachelor’s degree (1965) in Physics. She proceede
 d to the University of Cambridge\, where she was awarded a doctorate (1969
 ) in radio astronomy. Prof. Bell Burnell’s Applied Physics/Physics collo
 quium\, held on Wednesday\, May 10\, 2023\, is followed by the public Hofs
 tadter lecture on Thursday\, May 11\, 2023. Please join us for these fasci
 nating lectures. For more information contact ethomas1@stanford.edu.
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SUMMARY:The 2023 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture: Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burne
 ll -  “Tick\, tick\, tick pulsating star\, how we wonder what you are.
 ”
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