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Antony Hewish

1924 - 2021

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Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antony Hewish is the 80th most popular astronomer (down from 58th in 2019), the 725th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 578th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Astronomer.

Antony Hewish is most famous for his discovery of pulsars, which are rotating neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves.

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Among astronomers, Antony Hewish ranks 80 out of 644. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Pierre Méchain, Pierre Janssen, Russell Alan Hulse, Wilhelm Tempel, and Ejnar Hertzsprung. After him are Henrietta Swan Leavitt, John Russell Hind, Percival Lowell, Arthur B. McDonald, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Eugene Merle Shoemaker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Antony Hewish ranks 41. Before him are Ezer Weizman, Benny Hill, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Amílcar Cabral, Lee Marvin, and Willard Boyle. After him are Luigi Nono, Henry Mancini, Dmitry Yazov, Jin Yong, Francisco Macías Nguema, and Robert Solow. Among people deceased in 2021, Antony Hewish ranks 42. Before him are Nathalie Delon, Karolos Papoulias, DMX, Nawal El Saadawi, Colin Bell, and Jorge Sampaio. After him are Robert H. Grubbs, Hissène Habré, Robert Mundell, Toshihide Maskawa, Carlos Reutemann, and Sonny Chiba.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Antony Hewish ranks 725 out of 8,785. Before him are Neil Kinnock (1942), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), John Rhys-Davies (1944), and Philippa of Lancaster (1360). After him are Albert Finney (1936), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), William Shockley (1910), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), James Edward Smith (1759), and Herbert C. Brown (1912).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Antony Hewish ranks 11. Before him are Arthur Eddington (1882), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), John Michell (1724), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), and Fred Hoyle (1915). After him are John Russell Hind (1823), William Huggins (1824), Stephen Gray (1666), George Biddell Airy (1801), N. R. Pogson (1829), and Mary Somerville (1780).

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