Martin Ryle - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1974
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Martin Ryle

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: Antony Hewish
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
9/27/1918
place of birth
Brighton
date of death
10/14/1984
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
66 years
position held
  • Astronomer Royal
    • start time: 1972
    • end time: 1982
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1971
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1974
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1975
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/20/1952
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 11/11/1982
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
field of work
  • astronomy
occupation
  • physicist
  • astrophysicist
  • researcher
  • astronomer
educated at
  • University of Oxford
  • Christ Church
  • Trinity College
  • Bradfield College
doctoral student
  • Gareth Wynn-Williams
  • Andrew Stephen Wilson
  • Guy Gibson Pooley
  • Peter L. Read
  • Peter M. Rentzepis
  • Harry van der Laan
  • Nigel Henbest
  • Peter Scheuer
employer
  • University of Cambridge
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