Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist who was educated at the University of Glasgow and Cambridge University. While working on her PhD at Cambridge, she built a radio telescope and detected rapid, recurring radio pulses from beyond our solar system, which were later determined to be rapidly rotating neutron stars. She has had a distinguished career in astronomy and has received many honors, including the Michelson Medal, the Jansky Award, and appointment as Commander of the British Empire.