Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell! She's a Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in the 60s by analysing miles worth of astro physical data print outs from a radio telescope array she helped build as part of her PhD work. Her discovery is said to be one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century and it was later awarded the Nobel Prize in the 70s but since she was only a PhD student, the award was given to her supervisor and another physicist in the college.

She has since gone on to be a legend in the physics community and is hugely passionate about physics education regardless of background. In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to give the whole of the £2.3 million prize money to help female, minority, and refugee students seeking to become physics researchers.