Antony Hewish
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Antony Hewish was an English physicist and radio astronomer who made pioneering contributions to astronomy through the study of radio waves from space. He is best known for his work developing radio telescope technology and his role in the discovery of pulsars, which are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit radio signals.
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- 1924-05-11
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- 2021-09-13
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Antony Hewish (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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1924 births2021 deaths20th-century British astronomersAlumni of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesEnglish ChristiansEnglish Nobel laureatesFellows of Churchill College, CambridgeFellows of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeForeign fellows of the Indian National Science Academy