British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work
In the 70’s she said, “I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them.” <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell</a><p>The last paragraph of the article seems to give a brief insight into her position now on why she was excluded.<p>“The money will be handed to the Institute of Physics to fund PhD studentships for people underrepresented in physics. “A lot of the pulsar story happened because I was a minority person and a PhD student,” she said. “Increasing the diversity in physics could lead to all sorts of good things”<p>She slighly expands on that in the BBC coverage.<p>“The former president of the Institute of Physics (IOP) believes that it was because she was from a minority group herself that she had the fresh ideas required to make her discovery as a young student at Cambridge University more than 50 years ago.<p>"I found pulsars because I was a minority person and feeling a bit overawed at Cambridge. I was both female but also from the north-west of the country and I think everybody else around me was southern English," she said.<p>"So I have this hunch that minority folk bring a fresh angle on things and that is often a very productive thing. In general, a lot of breakthroughs come from left field."”<p><a href="https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-45425872" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/scienc...</a><p>Giving all the winnings to the cause is impressive.