Scottish honour for Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

by Ian Kirk-Smith 14th February 2014

The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and the arts, has elected Jocelyn Bell Burnell as its first female president.  Jocelyn graduated in Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 1965 and then gained her PhD from Cambridge in 1969. From 1982-1991 she worked at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.