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Hewish
[ hyoo-ishor, often, yoo- ]
noun
- Antony, 1924鈥2021, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.
Hewish
/ 藞丑箩耻藧瑟蕛 /
noun
- Hewish Antony1924MBritishSCIENCE: radio astronomer Antony. born 1924, British radio astronomer, noted esp for his role in the discovery of pulsars (1967): shared the Nobel prize for physics 1974
Hewish
- British astronomer. In 1967, working with the astronomer Susan Bell Burnell, he discovered the first pulsar.
Example Sentences
They were honored in 1974 for what the committee described as 鈥渢heir pioneering research in radio astrophysics,鈥 with Dr. Hewish cited for playing a 鈥渄ecisive role in the discovery of pulsars.鈥
Yet the award sparked decades of arguments among scientists who said at least part of the prize should have gone to one of Dr. Hewish鈥檚 graduate students, Jocelyn Bell.
Dr. Hewish never denied that Jocelyn Bell Burnell, as she became known as, made the initial pulsar observations.
Once again, she called Dr. Hewish.
The findings were announced in a February 1968 article in Nature, in which Dr. Hewish was credited first, followed by Bell Burnell and three other members of the research team.
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