Screenshot of a tweet by the Nobel Prize account on Twitter. It reads: "Happy birthday to Russell Hulse who was awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics for discovering a new type of pulsar (word created from "pulsating star"). Coincidentally the first pulsar was also detected #OTD in 1967, by Jocelyn Bell Burnell."

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:32:47 UTC Robert McNees

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   Today happens to be Hulse's birthday (again, he was very deserving of their prize).

   The Nobel used to note this every year, along with a casual mention of Jocelyn Bell Burnell's discovery.

   What they always failed to mention was that both Burnell and Hulse were 24 year old grad students when they made their discoveries. Hulse is a man, so he got a share of the prize. But Burnell is a woman, so the prize was given to her supervisor.

   They don't post it anymore.