Antony Hewish by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-24
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Portrait of Antony Hewish
. Woodruff T. Sullivan III; NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan Collection; rights NRAO/AUI/NSF. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Antony Hewish is a British astrophysicist known primarily for his work in radio astronomy. He was born on May 11, 1924. Hewish is most famous for his role in the discovery of pulsars, which are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation.

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