Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941 in Philadelphia ) is an American astrophysicist . He teaches at Princeton University .
In 1993 Taylor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Russell Hulse for the discovery of the pulsar PSR 1913 + 16 in a binary star system . With this pulsar it was possible for the first time to measure the energy loss due to gravitational waves and to confirm the corresponding predictions of the general theory of relativity .
Joe Taylor is an active radio amateur with the amateur radio call sign K1JT and in his spare time he deals with radio connections using the moon ( EME ) and meteors ( meteorscatter ) as a reflector for the radio waves. For this purpose he developed the WSJT procedure , which makes it possible to decode extremely weak signals that are no longer audible in the noise using a PC with a sound card. He also developed the WSPR transmission method and the software of the same name, with which an international beacon network operates, which for the first time has a return channel via the Internet and thus enables dynamic evaluation options via radio weather . In 2017 he proposed FT8 , a special type of modulation that quickly grew in popularity due to its efficiency.
Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)
- 1980: Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- 1981: MacArthur Fellowship
- 1981: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1982: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1985: Henry Draper Medal
- 1985: Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1987: Tomalla Prize
- 1990: Magellanic Premium
- 1991: Albert Einstein Medal
- 1991: John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science in Physics
- 1992: Wolf Prize in Physics
- 1992: Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1993: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1997: Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomical Society
- 2006: Namesake for the asteroid (81859) Joetaylor
- 2019: Horkheimer Prize of the German Amateur Radio Club
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1993 award ceremony for Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
- Princeton University ( January 19, 2001 memento in the Internet Archive )
- WSPR
- WSJT
Individual evidence
- ↑ K1JT in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database
- ↑ FT8 Mode is Latest Bright Shiny Object in Amateur Radio Digital World. www.arrl.org , accessed June 28, 2019.
- ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 57952
- ↑ Joe Taylor, K1JT, receives Horkheimer Prize www.darc.de , accessed on June 29, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, Joseph Hooton Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |