I'm too close to this topic for a chatty comment, but I'll just point to this IAU meeting: "Pulsar Astrophysics: The Next 50 years"[1]. It was held this September at Jodrell Bank, which has always had deep involvement with pulsar astronomy. Jocelyn Bell delivered the opening talk, and she got a sustained standing ovation. It was just a wonderful moment.

(And yeah, she wasn't a mere grad student - after her initial discovery and after it was dismissed by everyone around her, to borrow a phrase, she persisted.)

[1] http://pulsarastronomy.net/iaus337/