Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. | |
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 Taylor in 2008 | |
| Born | March 29, 1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Haverford College Harvard University |
| Known for | Pulsars, WSJT-X |
| Awards | Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980) Henry Draper Medal (1985) Magellanic Premium (1990) John J. Carty Award (1991) Wolf Prize in Physics (1992) Nobel Prize in Physics (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of Massachusetts Amherst Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Doctoral students | Victoria Kaspi, Ingrid Stairs |
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics[1] 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."