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A leading British astrophysicist is donating her US$3-million purse from a major science prize to encourage diversity in physics.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell says the money will go to the Institute of Physics to fund graduate scholarships for people from underrepresented groups � women, members of ethnic minorities and refugees.
She told the British Broadcasting Corp. that people from minority groups bring �a fresh angle on things and that is often a very productive thing. A lot of breakthroughs, she added, �come from left field.�
Ms. Bell Burnell won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Thursday for her role in discovering radio pulsars. The discovery of the rotating neutron stars won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1974, but two of Ms. Bell Burnell�s male colleagues were named the winners.
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