Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish  (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer. He 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. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.

Hewish died on 13 September 2021, aged 97.

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