# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antony-hewish
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:21.236Z

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name: "Antony Hewish"
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description: "Antony Hewish was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969."
tagline: "English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)"
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deathDate: "2021-09-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump