- As a schoolgirl, she read astronomy books cover to cover, teaching herself the jargon and figuring out complex concepts. Girls over age 12 were not allowed to take science classes; she complained to her parents, and the school finally allowed her to attend lab along with two other girls. At the end of the term, she ranked first in the class. By her junior year at the University of Glasgow, she was the only female student in honors physics.
- In 1967, she discovered pulsars as a graduate student at Cambridge University. In 1974, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of pulsars. Her adviser Antony Hewish was one of the recipients; she was not. She didn't expect to be acknowledged at that level, because graduate students, male or female, rarely were.
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