Jocelyn Bell Burnell Receives Priestley Award

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, head of the physic department at the Open University in England, was presented the 2002 Priestley Award for her discovery of the Pulsar, and subsequent research on the subject, just the second women to receive the prize. Dr. Burnell gave an address titled "In Pursuit of Pulsars" at the ceremony held in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.