Russell Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950 in New York ) is an American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics , which he shares with his doctoral advisor , Professor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. The 1993 Nobel Prize was awarded for " the discovery of a new type of pulsar that opened up new possibilities for researching gravity . " The pulsar is named PSR 1913 + 16 .

biography

In his youth he attended the Bronx High School of Science and the Cooper Union , a private college. After completing his bachelor's degree, he moved to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US state of Massachusetts , where he received his doctorate in physics in 1975 . In 1974, while working at the Arecibo Observatory, he and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. discovered the first binary pulsar, and in 1993 they were both awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery. With the neutron star system , Hulse and Taylor succeeded for the first time in the indirect detection of gravitational waves .

After receiving his doctorate, he worked from 1975 to 1977 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville , Virginia . He applied successfully to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 1977 because he saw few career opportunities in astronomy and to close the distance to his girlfriend, who was studying at the University of Pennsylvania . Since 2003 he has also been working as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Dallas .

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SURNAME	Hulse, Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hulse, Russell Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York