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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antony Hewish has received more than 326,263 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Antony Hewish is the 91st most popular astronomer (down from 60th in 2019), the 913th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 643rd 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

Among astronomers, Antony Hewish ranks 91 out of 531. Before him are Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Abu Maʿshar, Eric Walter Elst, Petrus Apianus, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, and Angelo Secchi. After him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, David Fabricius, Johann Elert Bode, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and William Huggins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Antony Hewish ranks 63. Before him are Roberto Eduardo Viola, Rosamunde Pilcher, Hermann Buhl, Roberts Blossom, Roza Shanina, and Ephraim Kishon. After him are Michel Tournier, Raj Kapoor, Ante Marković, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, André Franquin, and Dorothy Malone. Among people deceased in 2021, Antony Hewish ranks 86. Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Ed Asner, Robert H. Grubbs, Borisav Jović, Bertrand Tavernier, and Kim Yong-ju. After him are Mamnoon Hussain, Milva, Yuriy Sedykh, José Freire Falcão, Hannu Mikkola, and Ion Mihai Pacepa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Antony Hewish ranks 913 out of 7,765. Before him are Brian Josephson (1940), Samuel Crompton (1753), H. H. Asquith (1852), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), William Henry Perkin (1838), and Dave Gahan (1962). After him are David I of Scotland (1084), John McLaughlin (1942), Dua Lipa (1995), Jim Broadbent (1949), Alexander R. Todd (1907), and Colin Chapman (1928).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Antony Hewish ranks 11. Before him are James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Martin Ryle (1918), George Darwin (1845), William Lassell (1799), and Stephen Gray (1666). After him are William Huggins (1824), Mary Somerville (1780), George Biddell Airy (1801), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), and Adelard of Bath (1075).

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