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Scientist Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

HeadlineSep 10, 2018

And scientist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 50 years after she made a historic astronomical discovery—only to have her male adviser take credit and receive a Nobel Prize for her work. The special award comes with $3 million in prize money, which Bell Burnell says she’s donating to the U.K.’s Institute of Physics.

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