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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new kind of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for research. about gravity ".
BornMarch 29, 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityUnited States
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsPrinceton University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
Alma materHaverford College, Harvard University
Doctoral studentsVictoria Kaspi, Ingrid Stairs
Known forPulsars
Notable awardsDannie 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)

About Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Physicist Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on March 29, 1941. He's 82 years old today.

The co-recipient (with Russell Alan Hulse) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, he is famous for his discovery of a new variety of pulsar, a binary pulsar, which he and Hulse named PSR B1913+16.

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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. before becoming famous

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1941 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He accepted a post at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after receiving his bachelor's degree in physics from Haverford College and his PhD in astronomy from Harvard University.

Achievement of Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

From 1980 through 2006, he was a professor at Princeton University.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.'s Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Quaker parents Joseph and Sylvia Taylor, and spent the majority of his childhood in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. Harold E. Taylor, his younger brother, was also a physicist.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Collabed with

Both the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize have been awarded to him and fellow scientist Physicist Kenneth Wilson.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. updated on March 13 2023.