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thaynelast Tuesday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an interesting case. She didn't get the nobel prize, but today she is generally the one given credit for discovering pulsars in astronomy textbooks.


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nearbuylast Tuesday at 9:46 PM

Funny that Jocelyn Bell Burnell herself argued that she shouldn't have received the Nobel prize (I think she should have):

> It has been suggested that I should have had a part in the Nobel Prize awarded to Tony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars. There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it – after all, I am in good company, am I not!

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