Russell Alan Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse ( born November 28, 1950 in New York) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, he and his supervisor, Professor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., shares. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 1993 for both " opened the discovery of a new type of pulsar, the new possibilities for the study of gravitation. " The pulsar PSR 1913 16 bears the name.

In his youth he attended the Bronx High School of Science and the Cooper Union, is a private college. After his undergraduate degree, he joined the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, where he received his doctorate in physics in 1975. In 1974 he discovered during his work at the Arecibo Observatory in collaboration with Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. the first binary pulsar, for this discovery they were both awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize.

After completing his doctorate, he worked from 1975-1977 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. He applied to reduce the 1977 Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, he saw little career opportunities in astronomy and the distance from his students at the University of Pennsylvania girlfriend. Since 2003 he has also a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas.