Updated at September 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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Birthdate | July 15, 1943 |
Birth Place | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Astrophysicist |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is best known as Astrophysicist who has born on July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Currently, Jocelyn Bell Burnell is 81 years, 1 months and 23 days old. Jocelyn Bell Burnell will celebrate 82nd birthday on Tuesday, 15th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Jocelyn Bell Burnell upcoming birthday.
Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars and was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 until 2004.
She went to Lurgan College and was one of the first females allowed to study science there. She later graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Philosophy in 1965.
She was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio's Woman's Hour in February 2013.
Her father worked as an architect and helped design the Armagh Planetarium.
Like her, Edward Sabine was also an Irish scientist.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is 81 years old today.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born on July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell zodiac sign is Cancer.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was best known as Astrophysicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jocelyn Bell Burnell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
1979 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". |
1983 | An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. |
1996 | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1998 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. |
2002 | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
2002 | The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. |
2003 | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
2006 | Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. |
2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. |
2012 | South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. |
2014 | A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. |
2016 | Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. |
2018 | France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. |
2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
1990 | The birth of Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Damian Lillard, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tyler Young, American racing driver |
1991 | The birth of Danilo, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer |
1991 | The birth of Nuria Párrizas DÃaz, Spanish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Tobias Harris, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter |
1993 | The birth of HÃ¥vard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player |
1997 | The birth of Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Noah Gragson, American racing driver |
2008 | The birth of Iain Armitage, American child actor |
2013 | The death of Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) |
2013 | The death of John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) |
2014 | The death of Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982) |
2014 | The death of Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956) |
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