Whose discovery first revealed the existence of the neutron star by inference from pulsars?

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, working with Antony Hewish, detected the first pulsar signals in 1967 while analyzing radio telescope data. The regular pulses were so precise that they initially earned the playful label “LGM” for little green men. Later understanding showed they came from rotating neutron stars, objects with extraordinary density and strong magnetic fields. The discovery opened a new field in astrophysics and led to Hewish receiving the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.