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First Binary Pulsar Research Paper
First Binary Pulsar Research Paper
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The1993 Nobel prize for physics was a shared award between Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Russell Alan Hulse who was born on November 28,1950 in New York was an American physicist, he studied at cooper union college and earned a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1975 from the university of Massachusetts. Joseph H. Taylor Jr. born March 24,1941 in Philadelphia was an American radio astronomer and physicist. He studied at Haverford College and earned a Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University in 1696, he then joined Princeton University where he became a professor. Together Taylor and his graduate student, Hulse, discovered the first binary pulsar. Even though pulsars had already been discovered they introduced a new kind of pulsar,