Hewish

American  

[hyoo-ish, yoo-] / ˈhju ɪʃ, ˈju- /

noun

1. Antony, 1924–2021, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.

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Hewish British  

/ ˈhjuːɪʃ /

noun

1. Antony. born 1924, British radio astronomer, noted esp for his role in the discovery of pulsars (1967): shared the Nobel prize for physics 1974

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Hewish Scientific  

/ hyo̅o̅′ĭsh /

1. British astronomer. In 1967, working with the astronomer Susan Bell Burnell, he discovered the first pulsar.

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Referring to herself in the third person, she added that Dr. Hewish “had one idea that Jocelyn had wired up the radio telescope wrongly, and it was something to do with that.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021

Dr. Hewish had been studying rapid variations in radio signals when he built the Interplanetary Scintillation Array, a four-acre network of cables and copper wires that stretched across a field near Cambridge.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021

Derek Mead was constructing a rock garden at his residence in Hewish, near Weston-super Mare, in Somerset, England, on June 4, 2017, the BBC reported.

From Fox News ● Nov. 24, 2018

Derek Mead, 70, was building a rockery at his home in Hewish, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, on 4 June 2017.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2018

At first Bell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, thought they might have made contact with an alien civilization in the galaxy!

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking