Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Hewish is a fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. Awards and honors
Hewish has Honorary degrees from 6 universities including Manchester Exeter and Cambridge is a Foreign Member of the Belgian Royal Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. Hewish and Martin Ryle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974.

He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.