The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993
Awarded on: 1993-10-13
"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
Russell A. Hulse
Born: 1950-11-28 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist
Biography
Russell Alan Hulse 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".