# Antony Hewish
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antony hewish (born 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 his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
== Early life and education ==
Hewish attended King's College, Taunton.
Vulpecula
A hard-to-see fox trots high across the sky on autumn evenings: the constellation Vulpecula. It’s not very big, and its stars are all faint. But it was the site of one of the most famous discoveries in astronomy history — one that briefly looked like it might be a sign of alien life.
The constella…
Chemistry, Update & Dragons
Ready for a party in your ears from those wacky Nerds again? This week we are celebrating, scratching our chins in suspicion, and looking at upcoming events that we can use to make money. But first, grab a cup of Earl Grey, hot, get a comfy seat and get ready because we have a party. It’s here, tha…
Pulsars
Transcript: In 1967 Jocelyn Bell, a graduate student working at a radio telescope in Cambridge, England, noticed an unexpected source of radio emission that pulsed every one and a third seconds. Through careful detective work she and her coworkers were able to rule out artificial sources for the r…
Antony Hewish (pictured), Roger Michell, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Jane Powell
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Antony Hewish, the radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for his work on discovering pulsars.
Roger Michell, the film, theatre and TV director who brought us Notting Hill, The Buddha of Suburbia and Persuasion.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the President of Algeria for more than twe…
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Discovered pulsars and made significant contributions to astronomy
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an Irish astronomer, discovered pulsars—rapidly rotating neutron stars emitting periodic radio waves—while working on her PhD at Cambridge in 1967. Her groundbreaking discovery revolutionized astrophysics, providing insights into stellar evolution, extreme matter, and the stru…
Discovering the First Pulsar - Episode 48
Astrophysicist and professor, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on how she helped change astronomy forever.
In this episode, learn more about how a peculiar signal from space led Jocelyn to a groundbreaking discovery. She discusses her aerospace journey, building a radio telescope, discovering pul…
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