Russell Alan Hulse

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 the pulsar studies and gravitational waves.

Middle years

There he worked with Taylor on a large-scale survey for pulsars using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It was this work that led to the discovery of the first binary pulsar.

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Arecibo Observatory - Puerto Rico

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In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discover binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 which is made up of a pulsar and black companion star. Neutron star rotation emits impulses extremely regular and stable in the radio waves and is nearby condensed material body gravitation (non-detectable in the visible field).Hulse, Taylor, and other colleagues have used this first binary pulsar to make high-precision tests of general relativity, demonstrating the existence of gravitational radiation in the amount. An approximation of this radiant energy is described by the "formula of the quadrupolar radiation" of Albert Einstein (1918).

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1974 - Binary pulsar - PSR B1913+16 - Star - Binary - Pulsar - General relativity - Gravitational radiation - Approximation - Radiant energy - Formula of the quadrupolar radiation - Albert Einstein - 1918

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In 1979, an announcement was made of measurements of small acceleration effect of the orbital movement of pulsar. This was initial proof that the system of these two masses moving emit gravitational waves.

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