Les Fabuleuses / Prix No'bell

For a long time, women scientists were made invisible, even when they made major discoveries that sometimes changed the face of the world. Deprived of the awards and recognition reserved for their male colleagues, they were forgotten and erased from the history of science. The theatrical series Flammes de science wishes to do them justice by telling their stories.

This second episode of the theatrical series (flammes de science) portrays Jocelyn Bell. She completed her PhD in astrophysics at Cambridge under the supervision of Anthony Hewish in the late 60s. She is brilliant, but doubts herself, confiding in her friend Janet Smith, a theology student who must also carve out a place in a man's world. Jocelyn makes a major discovery, but struggles to convince her supervisor. Yet it was he alone who was rewarded by the Nobel committee in 1974.