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Antony Hewish
FRS FInstP
Born(1924-05-11)11 May 1924
Fowey, Cornwall, England
Died13 September 2021(2021-09-13) (aged 97)
NationalityBritish[2]
EducationKing's College, Taunton
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forPulsars
Spouse
Marjorie Richards
(m. 1950)
[3]
Awards
  • Hughes Medal (1977)
  • Nobel Prize for Physics (1974)
  • Eddington Medal (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsRadio astronomy
Institutions
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
  • Cavendish Laboratory
ThesisThe fluctuations of galactic radio waves (1952)
Doctoral studentsJocelyn 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]

  1. ^ 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. Free access icon
  2. ^ "Anthony Hewish". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference WW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ István., Hargittai (2007) [2002]. The road to Stockholm : Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198607854. OCLC 818659203.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Antony Hewish". nobel-winners.com. 2006. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference NobelA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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