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Antony Hewish FRS FInstP (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
May 9, 2024 · Antony Hewish was a British astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his discovery of pulsars (cosmic objects that emit extremely regular pulses of radio waves). Hewish was educated at the University of Cambridge and in 1946 joined the radio astronomy group there led by Sir.
Sep 17, 2021 · Antony Hewish, a pioneer of radio astronomy and a discoverer of a surprising class of stars known as pulsars, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize, died on Monday. He was 97.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 was awarded jointly to Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars"
Sep 18, 2021 · Antony Hewish, a British astronomer who designed and built the innovative radio telescope used to discover pulsars — dense, fast-spinning stars that emit sweeping beams of radiation — and was...
Sep 13, 2021 · Antony Hewish. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974. Born: 11 May 1924, Fowey, United Kingdom. Died: 13 September 2021. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Sep 24, 2021 · Antony (Tony) Hewish was a pioneering radioastronomer. His research student Jocelyn Bell (later Bell Burnell) made the first detection of a strange scintillating radio source that they...
Antony Hewish, a British astronomer and astrophysicist who designed and built the innovative radio telescope used to discover pulsars – dense, fast-spinning stars that emit sweeping beams of...
Antony Hewish. (1924–2021) Radioastronomer who won share of Nobel for role in discovering pulsars. (Tony) Hewish was a pioneering radioastronomer. His research student Jocelyn Bell (later Bell...
Sep 16, 2021 · Antony Hewish, the astronomer and astrophysicist who has died aged 97, won the 1974 Nobel Prize for physics, together with Sir Martin Ryle, for his discovery of pulsars – astronomical...
