The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974

Sir Martin Ryle

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Prize share: 1/2

Antony Hewish

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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 observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars"

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