Russell Alan Hulse
Russell Alan Hulse | |
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Hulse at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | |
| Born | November 28, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Cooper Union (BS) UMass Amherst (PhD) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | UT Dallas Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NRAO |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. |
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) 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.