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Antony Hewish FRS FInstP [4] (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) [5] for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
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.
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...
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...
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.
Biographical. I was born in Fowey, Cornwall, on 11 May 1924, the youngest of three sons and my father was a banker. I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats. I was educated at King’s College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942. From 1943-46 I was engaged in war service at ...
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...
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 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...
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