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From Noel Cramer, Thônex, Switzerland

It was interesting to read the account of the discovery of the first pulsar by Jocelyn Bell, and how she reluctantly accepted not sharing the Nobel prize in 1974 (5 August, p 42). If I remember correctly, the astronomer publicly criticised the Nobel Committee for her omission.

When Hoyle didn't share the 1983 Nobel for physics, despite his fundamental contribution to stellar nucleosynthesis being at least equal to that of , some astrophysicists to this stance.

Of course, his unorthodox views of cosmology must have played their part. And he also wrote science fiction…