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 and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."