Antony Hewish, a British astronomer who designed and built the innovative radio telescope used to discover pulsars — dense, fast-spinning stars that emit sweeping beams of radiation — and was ...

Antony Hewish, a pioneer of radio astronomy and a discoverer of a surprising class of stars known as pulsars, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize, died on Monday. He was 97.

Antony Hewish, a British astronomer and astrophysicist who designed and built the innovative radio telescope used to discover pulsars – dense, fast-spinning stars that emit sweeping beams of ...

Pulsar pioneer: Antony Hewish designed the Interplanetary Scintillation Array at Mullard, which was used by Jocelyn Bell Burnell to detect a pulsar for the first time. (Courtesy: Churchill College ...

The first came in 1967, when graduate student Jocelyn Bell (now Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell) was working with her adviser, Antony Hewish, on the newly constructed and very fancy Interplanetary ...

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge, working on a dissertation about strange objects in distant galaxies known as quasars. She and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, had ...

Bell and Hewish discover pulsars 1967. While pursuing her PhD at Cambridge University, Jocelyn Bell's advisor was Antony Hewish, a radio astronomer. Hewish and his graduate students in 1967 ...

Jocelyn Bell in 1967, the year she and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, discovered pulsars. Roger W Haworth/Flickr. What she found—a little bit of "scruff" on the chart records—has gone down in ...

Burnell, along with supervisor Antony Hewish, were studying distant quasars using a radio telescope when she noticed a bizarre signal in the data. Now, she’s finally getting the credit for it.

Antony Hewish, a pioneer of radio astronomy and a discoverer of a surprising class of stars known as pulsars, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize, died Monday. He was 97.His death was announced ...

Bell and Hewish discover pulsars 1967. While pursuing her PhD at Cambridge University, Jocelyn Bell's advisor was Antony Hewish, a radio astronomer. Hewish and his graduate students in 1967 completed ...