Abstract
A brief, personal, and very incomplete account of 50 years of pulsar astronomy presented at the Conference Dinner for “Physics of Neutron Stars – 2017 – 50 Years After”, held in Saint Petersburg, July 2017.
Highlights
Introduction and the discovery of pulsarsFirst, I would like to thank George Pavlov for the invitation to attend this meeting and to present this talk at the Conference Dinner
In mid-1967, Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge University helping to build the “Four-acre array”, an array of dipoles tuned to 81.5 MHz that Antony Hewish had designed to investigate interplanetary scintillation of radio sources with the aim of identifying compact sources likely to be quasars
With the completion of the array, Jocelyn was given the job of examining the chart recordings to find the rapidly fluctuating signals from compact sources that scintillated as a result of propagation through the solar wind
Summary
Introduction and the discovery of pulsarsFirst, I would like to thank George Pavlov for the invitation to attend this meeting and to present this talk at the Conference Dinner. I started work at the CSIRO Parkes Observatory just 12 days before the Nature paper was published and soon became involved in pulsar research.
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