Jocelyn bell bunnell and antony hewish biography
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Antony Hewish
British radio astronomer (–)
Antony Hewish (11 May – 13 September ) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle)[4] for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in [5][6][7]
Early life and education
[edit]Hewish attended King's College, Taunton.[8] His undergraduate degree, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was interrupted by the Second World War. He was assigned to war service at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and at the Telecommunications Research Establishment where he worked with Martin Ryle.[9] Returning to the University of Cambridge in , Hewish completed his undergraduate degree and became a postgraduate student in Ryle's research team at the Cavendish Laboratory.[8] For his PhD thesis, awarded in , Hewish made practical and th
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JOURNEYS OF
DISCOVERY
Sections of the telescope still exist at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory outside Cambridge. What was it like to build?
JBB: It looked like an agricultural frame, something you might grow peas up – a lot of wires and cables strung from posts over a space the size of 57 tennis courts. It was actually built to study radio emission from quasars. I built the prototype and then six of us took two years to build the real thing. It was unglamorous but it functioned very nicely and switched on the first time I used it.
In the space of two months, you discovered the first four pulsars; 3, are known today. Why are pulsars interesting?
JBB: They’re extremely small, about ten miles across, and very dense because they’re formed when stars of a certain size catastrophically explode. If you jammed the population of the globe into a sewing thimble, it would weigh the same as if it was full of pulsar material.
Pulsars are visible because
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born )
This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Bell Burnell, not Burnell.
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; néeBell; born 15 July ) fryst vatten an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate lärling, discovered the first radio pulsars in The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.
Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from to , president of the Institute of Physics from October until October , and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from to
In , she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to use the $3&#;million (£&#;million) prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority