Antony Hewish was born in Fowey, Cornwall in 1924. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1948 and obtained his Ph.D. in radio astronomy four years later. During the late sixties, Hewish devised a new type of antenna for the reception of radio signals from space. Before long his research team discovered radio signals or “pulses”, which were repeated extremely regularly at intervals of about a second. These measurements established the presence of a new class of star called pulsars that scientists had only been speculating about at the time. In 1974 Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”. Antony Hewish retired as Professor of Radio Astronomy in Cambridge in 1989.