{"id":82393,"date":"2018-09-06T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientist-passed-over-for-nobel-wins-3m-donates-it"},"modified":"2018-09-06T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:02:23","slug":"scientist-passed-over-for-nobel-wins-3m-donates-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientist-passed-over-for-nobel-wins-3m-donates-it","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Passed Over for Nobel Wins $3M, Donates It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-passed-over-for-nobel-wins-3m-donates-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a PhD student at Cambridge University some five decades ago when she made an astronomical discovery while reviewing data from a radio telescope: faint, repeating pulses of radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>These signals came to be known as pulsars, a type of neutron star described by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/pulsar-discoverer-jocelyn-bell-burnell-wins-3-million-breakthrough-prize1\/\" rel=\"external\">Scientific American<\/a> as \u201ca city-sized collapsed core of a massive sun that is made of degenerate matter and throws off lighthouse-like beams of radio waves.\u201d The discovery was a leap forward: It pointed to the existence of black holes, provided evidence for gravitational waves, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>It also yielded a 1974 Nobel Prize\u2014but not for Bell Burnell. Instead, the prize went to Antony Hewish, Bell Burnell\u2019s PhD supervisor, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/sep\/06\/jocelyn-bell-burnell-british-astrophysicist-overlooked-by-nobels-3m-award-pulsars\" rel=\"external\">Guardian<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/start.att.net\/news\/read\/category\/finance\/article\/newser-scientist_passed_over_for_nobel_wins_3m_donates_it-rnewsernor\">https:\/\/start.att.net\/news\/read\/category\/finance\/article\/new...rnewsernor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a PhD student at Cambridge University some five decades ago when she made an astronomical discovery while reviewing data from a radio telescope: faint, repeating pulses of radio waves. These signals came to be known as pulsars, a type of neutron star described by Scientific American as \u201ca city-sized collapsed core [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}