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  2. Oct 17, 2024 · Bell Burnell became a member of the Royal Society in 2003. She also served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society (2002–04) and was elected to a two-year term as president of the Institute of Physics in 2008. In 2021 Bell Burnell received the Copley Medal.

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    Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
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    On 'The end of the world in 2012? Science communication and science scares'.
    For her pivotal contribution in observing, analysing & understanding pulsars, one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the 20th century.
    For her work on the discovery of pulsars, one of the major astronomical discoveries of the 20th century.
  3. Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011.

  4. Nov 28, 2020 · Born in Irvine, Scotland in 1971, he is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In 2004 he received first prize in the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award for a painting of his wife and child, entitled The Miracle.

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · She was president of the Institute of Physics from 2008 to 2010, and has served as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2014. Bell Burnell also has honorary degrees from an array...

  6. Aug 24, 2021 · Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's highest prize, the Copley Medal. The medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research. In...

  7. Nov 28, 2020 · She is currently a professorial fellow in physics at Mansfield College, Oxford and she has been a member of the Royal Society since 2003.

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