Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would earn her adviser the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.
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Milestone: Radio pulsars discovered
Date: Nov. 28, 1967
Where: University of Cambridge, U.K.
Who: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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