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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation is honored to announce that Jocelyn Bell Burnell will receive the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics during the live, internationally broadcast Breakthrough Prize ceremony on November 4. Bell Burnell will receive the $3 million prize for fundamental contributions to the discovery of pulsars, and a lifetime of inspiring leadership in the scientific community. Her discovery of pulsars 50 years ago was one of the biggest surprises in the history of a

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