Anthony Hewish
1924-
English astronomer who was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for co-discovering pulsars. Pulsars were among the first of the "astronomical oddities" that, once...
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Born in Cornwall, Hewish attended King's College, Taunton, and Cambridge University. Upon graduating in 1948, he went to work for the Telecommunications Research Establishment before returning to Camb...
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