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Antony Hewish FRS FInstP (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) for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
Antony Hewish was a British astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his discovery of pulsars (cosmic objects that emit extremely regular pulses of radio waves). Hewish was educated at the University of Cambridge and in 1946 joined the radio astronomy group there led by Sir.
Sep 24, 2021 · A tribute to the radioastronomer who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering pulsars with his student Jocelyn Bell. Learn about his life, career and achievements in radio astronomy and interplanetary physics.
Sep 17, 2021 · Antony Hewish, a pioneer of radio astronomy and a discoverer of a surprising class of stars known as pulsars, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize, died on Monday. He was 97.
Antony Hewish was a radioastronomer who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering pulsars with his student Jocelyn Bell. He also worked on radio scintillation, interplanetary weather and neutron stars.
Mar 16, 2022 · Antony (Tony) Hewish was a pioneer radio astronomer who will always be remembered as the leader of the team in 1967 that discovered the pulsars, which proved to be rapidly rotating, magnetized neutron stars.
Antony Hewish was a British radio astronomer who discovered pulsars using a giant phased-array antenna. He also made pioneering measurements of ionospheric and interplanetary scintillation, and taught physics at Cambridge and the Royal Institution.
