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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. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
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May 9, 2024 · Antony Hewish (born May 11, 1924, Fowey, Cornwall, England—died September 13, 2021) 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 ...
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Mar 16, 2022 · Antony (Tony) Hewish was a pioneer radio astronomer who will always be remembered as the leader of the team in 1967 that discovered the pulsars, which proved to be rapidly rotating, magnetized neutron stars.
Sep 24, 2021 · A tribute to the radioastronomer who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in discovering pulsars. Learn about his life, career, achievements and legacy in this article by Malcolm Longair.
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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. His death was...
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...
Oct 3, 2021 · Sun 3 Oct 2021 12.42 EDT. Last modified on Mon 1 Nov 2021 14.41 EDT. In 1967, a team led by the radio astronomer Antony Hewish, who has died aged 97, discovered pulsars, rapidly pulsating radio...
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