• 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...
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  • Look up Hewish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hewish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Antony Hewish (1924–2021), English astronomer...
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    as pulsars, and the discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish in 1967 was the first observational suggestion that neutron stars exist...
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    radio interference by her supervisor and developer of the telescope, Antony Hewish, the fact that the signals always appeared at the same declination and...
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  • Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish in the early 1950s to the west of Cambridge (between the Grange Road...
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    away from the antennas because a lawn mower cannot fit in the spaces. Antony Hewish designed the IPS Array to measure the high-frequency fluctuations of...
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    Discovery of Halley's Comet – Edmond Halley Discovery of pulsars – Antony Hewish Discovery of Sunspots and was the first person to make a drawing of...
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    Cambridge, where she gained a PhD in 1969. At Cambridge, she worked with Antony Hewish and others to construct the Interplanetary Scintillation Array just...
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    isolate the angular source of the detected emissions. Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group developed the technique of Earth-rotation...
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  • of black holes. 1967: Pulsars discovered by English radio astronomer Antony Hewish (1924–2021) and one of his graduate students, Northern Irish Jocelyn...
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