Occupation: Astronomer Birth: May 11, 1924
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942..
I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats..
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds ….
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in G….
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers….
As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 ….
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random ph….
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting ….
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of th….
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern..