Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3 million prize for discovering pulsars

Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive stars gone supernova. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) When the Nobel Prizes roll around each year, inevitably there is chatter not just about who will win, but about those in the past who should have won, but didn’t, particularly women scientists. Jocelyn Bell […]

A Knight’s Tale: What happened to Jocelyn? Actress Shannyn Sossamon then and now

The star was a breakout favourite in the 2001 comedy, which starred the late Heath Ledger as a young squire in 14th-century Europe. Jocelyn was a noblewoman to whom William became instantly infatuated, with he and Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) jousting for her affections. For Sossamon, now 39, it was her first big screen role. […]