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Russell A. Hulse

Scientist · born November 28, 1950

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Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

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  1. ~43Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1993

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