Hewish

American

[hyoo-ish, yoo-] / ˈhyu ɪʃ, ˈyu- /

noun

Antony, 1924–2021, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.

Hewish British

/ ˈhjuːɪʃ /

noun

Antony. born 1924, British radio astronomer, noted esp for his role in the discovery of pulsars (1967): shared the Nobel prize for physics 1974

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Hewish Scientific

/ hyo̅o̅′ĭsh /

British astronomer. In 1967, working with the astronomer Susan Bell Burnell, he discovered the first pulsar.

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Antony Hewish, a British astronomer who designed and built the innovative radio telescope used to discover pulsars — dense, fast-spinning stars that emit sweeping beams of radiation — and was honored with a share of the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in their detection, died Sept. 13 at 97.

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Along with his Cambridge colleague Martin Ryle, Dr. Hewish was one of the first two astronomers to ever win a Nobel Prize.

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The findings were announced in a February 1968 article in Nature, in which Dr. Hewish was credited first, followed by Bell Burnell and three other members of the research team.

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Interviewed for the Times documentary, Bell Burnell said Dr. Hewish “could have cited me more and didn’t” while presenting their findings at Cambridge.

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When it came to the Nobel Prize, however, she said Ryle and Dr. Hewish were fully worthy of the honor.

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