Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his former student Russell Alan Hulse, for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.

Later years

In 1980, he moved to Princeton University, where he is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics, having also served for six years as Dean of Faculty.

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1980 - Princeton University - James S. McDonnell - Dean - Faculty

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Nobel

Taylor has used this first binary pulsar to make high-precision tests of general relativity. Working with his colleague Joel Weisberg, Taylor has used observations of this pulsar to demonstrated the existence of gravitational radiation in the amount and with the properties first predicted by Albert Einstein. He and Hulse shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of this object.

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Binary - Pulsar - General relativity - Joel Weisberg - Gravitational radiation - Albert Einstein - Nobel Prize

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