Antony Hewish | |
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 Nobel Prize portrait, 1974 | |
| Born | 11 May 1924 Fowey, Cornwall, England |
| Died | 13 September 2021 (aged 97) |
| Nationality | British[2] |
| Education | King's College, Taunton |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Pulsars |
| Spouse |
Marjorie Richards (m. 1950) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radio astronomy |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The fluctuations of galactic radio waves (1952) |
| Doctoral students | Jocelyn Bell Burnell[1] |
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.[6][7][8]
- ^ Bell, Susan Jocelyn (1968). The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.4926. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.449485.
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- ^ Hewish, A (1975). "Pulsars and High Density Physics". Science. 188 (4193) (published 13 June 1975): 1079–1083. Bibcode:1975Sci...188.1079H. doi:10.1126/science.188.4193.1079. PMID 17798425. S2CID 122436403.
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