Jocelyn Bell Burnell portrait

Quaker astrophysicist one of few female scientists to have portrait on walls of the Royal Society's headquarters

by Rebecca Hardy 4th December 2020

A painting of the Quaker astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has joined the portrait collection of the Royal Society. The inclusion makes her one of the few female scientists to have a portrait on the walls of the Royal Society’s Carlton House Terrace headquarters in central London. Out of 200 male portraits, only a handful are of women.