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Russell Alan Hulse

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American astronomer

United StatesScientistsBorn 1950 · age 75
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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".

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1993Nobel Prize in Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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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.

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Born 1950 · age 75
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