Hewish's Nobel-winning work was done in which decade?
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Answer
In the 1960s, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves, while conducting her PhD research under the supervision of Antony Hewish. Their discovery challenged existing theories about the universe and earned them the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded solely to Hewish despite Bell Burnell's significant contributions.
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