Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Antony Hewish NPG x25124

© Liam Woon / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Liam Woon

Radio astronomer. Hewish studied at the University of Cambridge. While directing a research project at the Mullard Radio Observatory in 1967, Hewish recognised that the radio signals detected by his research student Jocelyn Bell, were energy emissions from a new classification of star. Hewish became Professor of Radio Astronomy at Cambridge in 1971, and professor emeritus in 1989. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 was awarded jointly to Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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