Russell Alan Hulse
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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".
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Born | (1950-11-28) November 28, 1950 (age 73) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Cooper Union (BS) UMass Amherst (PhD) |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1993) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | UT Dallas Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NRAO |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. |
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