# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-alan-hulse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:31.819Z

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name: "Russell Alan Hulse"
slug: "russell-alan-hulse"
description: "Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor \"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation\". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss."
tagline: "American astronomer"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1950-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump