Nobel Prize in Physics 1974
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Sir Martin Ryle
Prize share: 1/2
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Antony Hewish
Prize share: 1/2
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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