Antony Hewish - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1974
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Antony Hewish

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1974
for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars
Together with: Martin Ryle
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
5/11/1924
place of birth
Fowey
date of death
9/13/2021
Lived
97 years
member of
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1993
  • International Astronomical Union
  • Royal Society of London
  • Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • Cavendish Laboratory
  • Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • Yale University
occupation
  • astronomer
  • physicist
  • astrophysicist
  • university teacher
  • Nobel Prize winner
doctoral student
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Peter Duffett-Smith
educated at
  • King's College
  • Gonville and Caius College
  • University of Cambridge
field of work
  • astronomy
  • physics
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