Antony Hewish#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1355 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Antony Hewish passed away September 13, 2021.
Positions Held
- 1982 - 1988 Head of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
- 1971 - 1989 Professor of Radio Astronomy at Cambridge University
- 1961 - 1969 University Lecturer at Cambridge University
- 1961 Director of Studies in Physics at Churchill College
- 1952 - 1961 Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College
- 1952 PhD in Physics at Cambridge University
- 1948 Researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- Identification of pulsars as a new class of stars
- Radio astronomy
- Physics
Honours and Awards
- 1968 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1969 Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society
- 1972 Dellinger Gold Medal, International Union of Radio Science
- 1973 Albert A. Michelson Medal, Franklin Institute (jointly with Jocelyn Bell Burnell)
- 1974 Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize
- 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly with Martin Ryle)
- 1977 Hughes Medal, Royal Society
- 1998 Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
