What celestial objects was Hewish crucial in discovering?
Pulsars
Black Holes
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Answer
Pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation, were discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, not Jocelyn Hewish. Hewish was Burnell's Ph.D. supervisor at the time of the discovery and the Nobel Prize was later awarded solely to Hewish for this work, a decision that has since been widely criticized as a case of gender bias.
Reaching for the Stars: The Story of Antony Hewish
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