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Hewish

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Hew·ish  (hysh), Antony Born 1924.
British astronomer. He shared a 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of pulsars.


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Mark Hewish, "USN Aims for 'Maritime Dominance,'" Jane's International Defense Review, Vol.
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The emissions, detected by Anthony Hewish, Jocelyn Bell and their colleagues, came from what is now known as a pulsar.
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Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell make the most exciting recent observation in astrophysics by discovering pulsating stars or `pulsars' using Cambridge's Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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