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Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, 11 May 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for ...
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Autobiography. I was born in Fowey, Cornwall, on 11 May 1924, the youngest of three sons and my father was a banker. I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there ...
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Antony Hewish, born in 1924, British astronomer and Nobel laureate, who in 1967, with assistant Jocelyn Bell, discovered the celestial objects now called pulsars (see Star). He was born in Fowey, England, and educated at the University of Cambridge. For their separate work, he and British astronomer Sir Martin Ryle were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.

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