Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Awards

Awards

Although she didn't share the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics with Hewish for her discovery, she has been honoured by many other organisations:

• The Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (1973, jointly with Dr. Hewish).
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize from the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami (1978).
• Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1987).
• Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1989).
• Karl G. Jansky Lectureship of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory(1995).
• Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society (2000).
• Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (March 2003).
• On 19 August 2011, she received the Grote Reber Medal at the General Assembly of the International Radio Science Union in Istanbul.

She has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, for instance:

• In 2000, Bell Burnell was awarded an honorary doctorate by Williams College.
• In 2007, Bell Burnell was awarded an honorary doctorate by Harvard University.
• On 23 June 2007, Bell Burnell was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Durham.