The Pulsar Pulse

The discovery of pulsars amounted to a 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for Antony Hewish, which he split with astronomer Martin Ryle. The data lit up the scientific community and other researchers switched gears, looking for more evidence of these pulsating radio waves. After Jocelyn made her landmark discovery, she married Martin Bernal. And her career took a turn. At that time, there wasn't any way of keeping my maiden name. So I lost that as well and kind of lost my scientific reputation. And so my quote career has been really, really peculiar.