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Russell Hulse

род. 1950 · Astrophysics, pulsar physics, gravitational waves
American physicist who, together with Joseph Taylor, discovered the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16, which provided the first indirect confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves.

Biography

Born in 1950 in New York. He studied at Cooper Union, then at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received his doctorate in 1975. As a graduate student, he worked with Taylor at the Arecibo radio telescope laboratory, where they made their famous discovery. He later worked at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993.

Key discoveries

💡 Hulse made his epochal discovery as a 23-year-old graduate student, and still jokes that his main contribution was not throwing away the 'strange' signal. After astrophysics, he moved into plasma research and became an expert on nuclear fusion.
"He described the discovery as like finding a needle in a haystack, scanning kilometers of paper tape with data and suddenly seeing a signal that could only be explained by a binary system."
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