Hewish

American

[hyoo-ish, yoo-] / ˈhju ɪʃ, ˈju- /

noun

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

Hewish British

/ ˈhjuːɪʃ /

noun

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 /

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

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After receiving his PhD in 1952, Dr. Hewish joined the faculty at Cambridge.

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

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