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It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio <a href="/tags/telescope/" rel="tag">#telescope</a> that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a <a href="/tags/pulsar/" rel="tag">#pulsar</a>. Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell would be excluded from the <a href="/tags/nobel/" rel="tag">#Nobel</a> Prize of <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#Physics</a>.

This is a photo of the chart on which Burnell first recognised evidence of a pulsar.

It is a yellowed scroll of paper, with small squares and numbers to find interferences & record them correctly. There are red squiggly lines indicating the radio signal. In black ink, Burnell shows the exact points at which the signal quivered differently than normal - these are hard to see.

The map is display at the University of Cambridge Library.

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