Talk:Antony Hewish

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Hewish & Hoyle - worth noting that Hoyle, who was at IoTA, and the MRAO team had had a rather uneasy working relationship in the mid 60s - a carryover from the 2C source-counts controversy, I understand. Thus Hoyle's remarks about the non-inclusion of Jocelyn Bell-Burnell on the Nobel Prize were viewed by some as neither particularly informed (he hadn't had any close involvement in the work, and indeed the pulsar-discovery was a close secret until late on, I understand) nor particularly NPOV (to coin a phrase) :-) Linuxlad 11:41, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source for that? From what I've read, people usually take Hoyle's dispute of the Prize seriously. One possible interesting point is that Hoyle himself (according to some) was denied a rightful share of the Prize in the '30s.--Gloriamarie 19:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)