Female scientists lead Cambridge success in Royal Society awards

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch - Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society's prestigious Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. I hope there will be many more female Copley winners in the near future Jocelyn Bell Burnell Burnell is one of twelve former and current Cambridge researchers, including six women, to be recognised in 2021 for their exceptional research and outstanding contributions to science. Dame Jocelyn has been honoured for her work on the discovery of pulsars in the 1960s while she was a postgraduate student at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College) carrying out research at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. Past winners of the Copley Medal have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Dame Jocelyn said: "I am delighted to be the recipient of this year's Copley Medal, a prize which has been awarded to so many incredible scientists. "With many more women having successful careers in science, and gaining recognition for their transformational work, I hope there will be many more female Copley winners in the near future. "My career has not fitted a conventional - male - pattern.