Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". He was a specialist in pulsar studies and gravitational waves.
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28 November 1950 (age 74) New York City, New York
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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