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Antony Hewish

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Antony Hewish (born 11 May 1924) is 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. [1]

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Anambra State

Anambra is a state in southeastern Nigeria.

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Antony

Antony is a masculine given name and a surname which may refer to.

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Aperture synthesis

Aperture synthesis or synthesis imaging is a type of interferometry that mixes signals from a collection of telescopes to produce images having the same angular resolution as an instrument the size of the entire collection.

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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Astronomical spectroscopy

Astronomical spectroscopy is the study of astronomy using the techniques of spectroscopy to measure the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and radio, which radiates from stars and other celestial objects.

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August 1967

The following events occurred in August 1967.

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Cambridge Interferometer

The Cambridge Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish in the early 1950s to the west of Cambridge (between the Grange Road football ground and the current Cavendish Laboratory).

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Cavendish Astrophysics Group

The Cavendish Astrophysics Group (formerly the Radio Astronomy Group) is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

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Cavendish Laboratory

The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences.

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Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Culture of Sussex

The culture of Sussex refers to the pattern of human activity and symbolism associated with Sussex and its people.

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Eddington Medal

The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Fred Hoyle

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was a British astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville & Caius College (often referred to simply as Caius) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Hewish

Hewish is a surname.

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Holweck Prize

The Holweck Prize is a major European prize for Physics awarded jointly every year by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Société Française de Physique (SFP).

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Index of physics articles (A)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Interplanetary scintillation

In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few seconds.

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Interplanetary Scintillation Array

The Interplanetary Scintillation Array (IPS Array or Pulsar Array) was built at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1967 and originally covered four acres (16,000 m²).

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J. A. Ratcliffe

John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB OBE FRS (12 December 1902 – 25 October 1987), "JAR" or "Jack", was an influential British radio physicist.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who was credited with "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century".

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John Polkinghorne

John Charlton Polkinghorne (born 16 October 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer and Anglican priest.

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Karl Schwarzschild Medal

The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.

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King's College, Taunton

King's College is an independent coeducational secondary day and boarding school in Taunton, Somerset, England.

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List of astronomers

The following are list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.

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List of British innovations and discoveries

The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.

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List of Christian Nobel laureates

65% of Nobel prize winners have been Christians.

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List of Christians in science and technology

This is a list of Christians in science and technology.

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List of Cornish scientists

This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.

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List of English inventions and discoveries

English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England (that is, someone born in England - including to non-English parents - or born abroad with at least one English parent and who had the majority of their education or career in England).

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1968

This page lists Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1968.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society G, H, I

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.

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List of Nobel laureates by country

This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country.

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List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows comprehensively the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1901 (as of 2017, 892 individual laureates in total).

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List of Nobel laureates in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics.

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List of people from Cornwall

This is a list of people from Cornwall, a county of England in the United Kingdom.

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List of physicists

Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

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List of spectroscopists

Articles about notable spectroscopists.

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List of University of Cambridge people

This is a list of University of Cambridge people, featuring members of the University of Cambridge segregated in accordance with their fields of achievement.

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Little green men

Little green men is the stereotypical portrayal of extraterrestrials as little humanoid-like creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads.

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LOFAR

The Low-Frequency Array or LOFAR, is a large radio telescope network located mainly in the Netherlands, completed in 2012 by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and its international partners, and operated by ASTRON's radio observatory, of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

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Long Michelson Interferometer

The Long Michelson Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and co-workers in the late 1940s beside the rifle range to the west of Cambridge, England.

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Lurgan College

Lurgan College is a Christian, co-educational, 14–19 age selective grammar school situated in the town of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Martin Ryle

Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.

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Matilda effect

The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues.

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May 11

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May 1924

The following events occurred in May 1924.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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Neutron star

A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large star which before collapse had a total of between 10 and 29 solar masses.

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Nobel Prize controversies

After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes.

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November 1967

The following events occurred in November 1967.

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November 28

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One-Mile Telescope

The One-Mile Telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is an array of radio telescopes (2 fixed and 1 moveable, fully steerable 60-ft-diameter parabolic reflectors operating simultaneously at 1407 MHz and 408 MHz), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.

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Phased array

In antenna theory, a phased array usually means an electronically scanned array; a computer-controlled array of antennas which creates a beam of radio waves which can be electronically steered to point in different directions, without moving the antennas.

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PSR B1919+21

PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds.

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PSR B1937+21

PSR B1937+21 is a pulsar located in the constellation Vulpecula a few degrees in the sky away from the first discovered pulsar, PSR B1919+21.

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PSR J0348+0432

PSR J0348+0432 is a neutron star in a binary system with a white dwarf.

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PSR J1614–2230

PSR J1614–2230 is a neutron star in a binary system with a white dwarf.

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Quakers in science

The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, encouraged some values which may have been conducive to encouraging scientific talents.

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Questions of Truth

Questions of Truth is a book by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale which offers their responses to 51 questions about science and religion.

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Radio astronomy

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies.

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Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–42 because of the Second World War.

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Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources

The Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (2C) was published in 1955 by John R Shakeshaft and colleagues.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Taunton

Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England.

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Telecommunications Research Establishment

The Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) was the main United Kingdom research and development organization for radio navigation, radar, infra-red detection for heat seeking missiles, and related work for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II and the years that followed.

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The Observatory (journal)

The Observatory is a publication, variously described as a journal, a magazine and a review, devoted to astronomy.

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Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London).

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Timeline of astronomy

Babylonian astronomers discover an 18.6-year cycle in the rising and setting of the Moon.

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Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity

Timeline of gravitational physics and general relativity.

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Timeline of scientific discoveries

The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer.

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Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae

Timeline of neutron stars, pulsars, supernovae, and white dwarfs Note that this list is mainly about the development of knowledge, but also about some supernovae taking place.

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Vulpecula

Vulpecula is a faint constellation in the northern sky.

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Women in science

Women have made significant contributions to science from the earliest times.

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1924

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1924 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.

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1967

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1967 in science

The year 1967 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1967 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1967 in the United Kingdom.

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1968 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1968 in the United Kingdom.

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1974

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1974 in science

The year 1974 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1974 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1974 in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hewish

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