The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Machinery of the Cell [Sponsored]

Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

See a prize-winning photograph of mating golden-tabbed robber flies

From lasers to a Nobel Prize: A conversation with Donna Strickland