Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 83 |
Date of birth | March 29,1941 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Field | Physics |
Books | Pulsars |
Siblings | Harold E. Taylor |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Wolf Prize in Physics | |
Albert Einstein Medal | |
Henry Draper Medal | |
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | |
Karl Schwarzschild Medal | |
MacArthur Fellowship | |
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science | |
Magellanic Premium | |
Education | Harvard University |
Haverford College | |
Moorestown Friends School | |
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ID | 733890 |
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Life story
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."