Awards and Honors
Hewish has Honorary degrees from 6 universities including Manchester, Exeter and Cambridge, is a Foreign Member of the Belgian Royal Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. His prizes include:
- Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society (1969)
- Dellinger Gold Medal, International Union of Radio Science (1972)
- Albert A. Michelson Medal, Franklin Institute (1973, jointly with Jocelyn Bell Burnell)
- Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly) (1974)
- Hughes Medal, Royal Society (1977)
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