Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish
FRS FInstP
Antony Hewish FRS FInstP
	Nobel Prize portrait, 1974
Born	11 May 1924; Fowey, Cornwall, England
Died	13 September 2021 (aged 97)
Nationality	British
Education	King's College, Taunton
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Pulsars
Spouse	Marjorie Richards (m. 1950)
Awards	Hughes Medal (1977); Nobel Prize for Physics (1974); Eddington Medal (1969);
	Scientific career
Fields	Radio astronomy
Institutions	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Cavendish Laboratory;
Thesis	The fluctuations of galactic radio waves (1952)
Doctoral students	Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Antony Hewish FRS FInstP^[4] (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)^[5] for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.^[6]^[7]^[8]

^ Bell, Susan Jocelyn (1968). The Measurement of radio source diameters using a diffraction method. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.4926. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.449485.
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^ István., Hargittai (2007) [2002]. The road to Stockholm : Nobel Prizes, science, and scientists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198607854. OCLC 818659203.
^ Hewish, A (1975). "Pulsars and High Density Physics". Science. 188 (4193) (published 13 June 1975): 1079–1083. Bibcode:1975Sci...188.1079H. doi:10.1126/science.188.4193.1079. PMID 17798425. S2CID 122436403.
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Antony Hewish FRS FInstP
Nobel Prize portrait, 1974
Born	(1924-05-11)11 May 1924 Fowey, Cornwall, England
Died	13 September 2021(2021-09-13) (aged 97)
Nationality	British^[2]
Education	King's College, Taunton
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Pulsars
Spouse	Marjorie Richards (m. 1950) ^[3]
Awards	Hughes Medal (1977) Nobel Prize for Physics (1974) Eddington Medal (1969)
Scientific career
Fields	Radio astronomy
Institutions	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory
Thesis	The fluctuations of galactic radio waves (1952)
Doctoral students	Jocelyn Bell Burnell^[1]