Fact 1
He was the first Catholic priest to become a member of the Royal Society.
Fact 2
His experiments with gravy and tainted wheat showed that life could generate spontaneously.
Fact 3
He also sparked controversy with Voltaire, who claimed germs were preexisting.
Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars
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was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.
Is a federal state in Western Europe.
An English natural philosopher and polymath.
Was an American chemist best known as the developer of the radiocarbon dating technique for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1960.
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