Antony Hewish FRS FInstP | |
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Died | 13 September 2021 | (aged 97)
Nationality | British |
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 |
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Thesis | The fluctuations of galactic radio waves (1952) |
Doctoral students | Jocelyn Bell Burnell[1] |
Antony Hewish FRS FInstP (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle)[2] for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.[3][4]