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 Cambridge to become part of a team undertaking solar and...

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 discovered, greatly revised scientific understanding of the...

Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in...