Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
American astronomer
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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 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".[1]
Taylor Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Harvard University.
References
change- ↑ "Joseph H. Taylor Jr". NobelPrize.org. biographical.
Other websites
change- "Joseph Taylor". Department of Physics. Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - "Nobel Physics laureates". nobel.se. 1993.
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