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.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_BurnellThe last paragraph of the article seems to give a brief insight into her position now on why she was excluded.“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”She slighly expands on that in the BBC coverage.“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."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."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."”https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/scienc...Giving all the winnings to the cause is impressive.