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Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish

British astronomer
Antony Hewish FRS FInstP was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969. Wikipedia
Born: May 11, 1924, Fowey, United Kingdom
Died: September 13, 2021 (age 97 years)
Known for: Pulsars
Awards: Hughes Medal (1977), Nobel Prize in Physics (1974), and Eddington Medal (1969)
Doctoral students: Jocelyn Bell Burnell