Antony Hewish (1924–2021)

Hewish realized that a large array designed to detect low-frequency scintillation would address three important astronomical problems: the discovery of many more radio quasars; the measurement of their angular sizes; and the determination of the structure and velocity of the solar wind, the stream o...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2021-09, Vol.597 (7878), p.628-628
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Angular velocity
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Binary stars
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Charged particles
Hewish, Antony
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Neutron stars
Neutrons
Nobel prizes
Obituary
Observatories
Pulsars
Quasars
Radiation
Radio
Radio astronomy
Relativity
Science
Solar wind
Solar wind velocity
Space telescopes
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Sun
Telescopes
Theory of relativity
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Telescopes
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