Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. | |
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Taylor in 2008 | |
| Born | March 29, 1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Haverford College Harvard University |
| Known for | Pulsars, WSJT-X |
| Awards | Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980) Henry Draper Medal (1985) Magellanic Premium (1990) John J. Carty Award (1991) Wolf Prize in Physics (1992) Nobel Prize in Physics (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of Massachusetts Amherst Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Doctoral students | Russell Alan Hulse, Victoria Kaspi, Ingrid Stairs |
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) 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.