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Podcast: Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005
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Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:35:43
Publish Date: 2000-12-24 05:15:00
Description: Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the astrophysicist Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was only twenty-four when she made the discovery of a lifetime: As she was mapping the universe for her PhD, she chanced upon the radio signal for a totally new kind of star, known as a 'pulsar'. Her find is seen as one of the most important contributions to astrophysics in the twentieth century. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves by Giuseppe Verdi Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Luxury: Book on how to sketch and some paper and pens
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