Why She Didn't Get The Nobel Prize?

Jocelyn Bell, a young graduate student of astronomy at Cambridge University, in 1967 observed bursts of radio wave radiation at small intervals. They came from a region between the stars Vega and Altair. Astronomers determined that the source of the radiation was a rapidly rotating neutron star, a pulsating star, or pulsar for short. The radiation is created by electrons transversing the star's powerful magnetic field. The pulsar itself is perhaps only about eight kilometers across but as massive as the sun. Although it was Jocelyn Bell who discovered the pulsating star, it was her supervisor, Antony Hewish, who received the 1974 Nobel Prize for physics, which he shared with Sir Martin Ryle. When Antony Hewish was asked why Jocelyn Bell did not get the Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, he replied: 'She used my radio telescope for the discovery'.