Joseph Hooton Taylor - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1993
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Joseph Hooton Taylor

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1993
for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation
Together with: Russell A. Hulse
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
3/29/1941
place of birth
Philadelphia
Age
85 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1992
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Astronomical Society
occupation
  • astronomer
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • physicist
  • astrophysicist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • David Helfand
  • Victoria Kaspi
  • Russell A. Hulse
educated at
  • Haverford College
  • Moorestown Friends School
  • Harvard University
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
employer
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Princeton University
field of work
  • physics
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