Science
A grad student found pulsars in the chart paper — the Nobel went to her supervisor
In 1967, Cambridge PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a strange, precisely repeating radio signal in miles of telescope chart paper, dubbed 'LGM-1' as a joke about little green men. It was the first pulsar ever detected, a rapidly spinning neutron star. The 1974 Nobel Prize for the discovery went to her supervisor Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle; Bell Burnell was left off.