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
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Born: 1941-03-29 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American astrophysicist
Biography
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with 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". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.