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 astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss.