Born 100 years ago this month, Martin Ryle was more than just a Nobel-prize-winning astronomer. Alan Cottey takes a fresh look at the life of a brilliant and conflicted scientist who was also a ...

Born Sept. 27, 1918, and educated at Bradfield College and Oxford University in the U.K., Martin Ryle would go on to be the first astronomer royal (1972-1982) with a background in radio astronomy.

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Matin Durrani talks to James Dacey about the life of the Nobel-prize-winning astronomer Martin Ryle, who was also a visionary in the field of ...

A British scientist reported last week about an event that might seem unreportable: the birth of the universe. Cambridge University Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle performed the feat by taking a look at ...

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AS HENRY KISSINGER once observed, the reason academic disputes are so bitter is that the stakes are so low. Whether you regard understanding the origin of the universe as a low-stakes academic ...

Sir Francis Graham-Smith in 2007: he carried out much important work on pulsars - Science Photo Library Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Antony Hewish FRS, Honorary Fellow of Gonville Caius College, Cambridge had died on September 13, 2021. He was 97. He took admission in Cambridge as an undergraduate in 1942 ...

Interview with Prof. Antony Hewish, the 1974 Nobel Prize laureate in physics is important for me since I consider it an exploration in the history of radio astronomy. Antony Hewish, Fellow of the ...