Astrophysicist scores $3 million prize over four decades after being snubbed for a Nobel

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell doesn't need to prove anything to anyone. Her career as a scientist and now a professor sort of speaks for itself, but back in the 1970s her work was severely overlooked. Burnell, along with supervisor Antony Hewish, were studying distant quasars using a radio telescope when she noticed a bizarre signal in the data. Now, she's finally getting the credit for it. What they were actually looking at was the first evidence of a previously unknown celestial phenomen...