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In this extract from Horizon: The Crab Nebula, Jocelyn Bell Burnell recounts observing the first radio pulsars using the Interplanetary Scintillation Array - which she helped to build - while she was still just a graduate student.

In 1974, Bell Burnell's supervisor, Antony Hewish and fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their role in the discovery of pulsars. Bell Burnell did not receive the prize.

Bell Burnell was awarded the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for "fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and a lifetime of inspiring leadership in the scientific community."

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