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38 - The Nobel Prize's Greatest Misses

Why This Universe?

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Who Should Have Won a No-Bell Prize?

Dan Hooper: Why This Universe We Can Talk is a podcast where we break down the biggest ideas in physics. In this episode, Dan talks about people who should have gotten a no-bell prize sometime over the past 120 years but didn't. He says Jocelyn Bell was pivotal in the discovery of pulsars back in the 1960s; she helped build and then use a radio telescope called the interplanetary scintillation array.

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