Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

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Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. with his wife Marietta Taylor

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)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. K1JT in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database
  2. FT8 Mode is Latest Bright Shiny Object in Amateur Radio Digital World. www.arrl.org , accessed June 28, 2019.
  3. ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  4. Minor Planet Circ. 57952
  5. Joe Taylor, K1JT, receives Horkheimer Prize www.darc.de , accessed on June 29, 2019.