biography
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Radio astronomer, born in Fowey, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and spent his career there, becoming professor of radio astronomy (1971–89). In 1967 he began studies, using a radio telescope of novel design, on the scintillation (‘twinkling’) of quasars (a class of radio stars). This led him and his student Susan Jocelyn (Burnell) Bell (1943– ) to discover the first radio stars emitting radio signals in regular pulses; named as pulsars, many others have since been discovered. Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 with his former teacher, Sir Martin Ryle. |
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