What did Hewish study at Cambridge University?
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Hewish studied physics at Cambridge University, where he developed an interest in radio astronomy and began working on the design and construction of radio telescopes. His groundbreaking research later led to the discovery of pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974.
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