Russell Alan Hulse ( born Russell Alan Hulse ; born November 28, 1950 , New York , USA ) is an American physicist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics "for discovering a new type of pulsar that provided new opportunities for the study of gravity," together with Joseph Taylor
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| Scientific field | physics |
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| Alma mater | Higher School of Science in the Bronx |
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| Awards and prizes |  Nobel Prize in Physics ( 1993 ) |
Russell Hals and Joseph Taylor made their discovery in 1974, while observing with a radio telescope in Arecibo, they first discovered the double pulsar PSR B1913 + 16 .
In 1991, measurements of the contracting orbit of this pair of stars forming a pulsar gave confirmation of the general theory of relativity , and the possibility of radiation of gravitational waves by this system.
Rewards
- Nobel Prize in Physics , 1993
Notes
Links
- 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics - Astronomers. - K. A. Postnov, “The Universe and We”
- Information from the Nobel Committee website
- R. A. Hals . "The discovery of the double pulsar." Nobel Lecture // Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk , Volume 164, Issue 7, July 1994