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Hew⋅ish

  [hyoo-ish or, often, yoo-]
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–noun
Antony, born 1924, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel prize for physics 1974.
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Hew·ish   (hyōō'ĭsh)   
British astronomer. He shared a 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of pulsars.
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Hewish   (hy'ĭsh)  Pronunciation Key 
British astronomer. In 1967, working with the astronomer Susan Bell Burnell, he discovered the first pulsar.
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