Abstract
Pulsating stars, called pulsars, were discovered by the author together with Jocelyn Bell-Burnell in 1967. Rotating neutron stars explained the detectable radiation which probably originates from a charged magnetosphere surrounding the neutron stars. The precession of a binary pulsar has verified one of Einstein's theories, and his theory of gravitational waves has been confirmed by the steady decrease in its orbital period of rotation. Since the pulses from certain pulsars can now be measured to 14 decimal places, they can be used as a highly accurate time standard.
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