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Antony Hewish

1924–2021

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Antony Hewish (1924–2021) was a British radio astronomer who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was a professor at the University of Cambridge and a pioneer in radio astronomy, known for his meticulous experimental approach and his later controversial skepticism about SETI.

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The Discovery of Pulsars (Nobel Lecture, 1974)
Radio Astronomy (with J. L. Pawsey, 1955)
Pulsars and High Energy Physics (1980)
The Interplanetary Scintillation of Radio Sources (1964)
Observations of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source (1968, Nature paper)

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