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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

American astronomer

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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.

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Born
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Place of birth
Philadelphia wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, university teacher, Nobel Prize winner wd
Education
Haverford College, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Moorestown Friends School wd

Awards wd

  • MacArthur Fellows Program (1981)
  • Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980)
  • Dr. Tomalla Prize (1987)
  • Albert Einstein Medal (1991)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
  • Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1997)
  • Harvard Centennial Medal
  • Henry Draper Medal (1985)
  • Wolf Prize in Physics (1992)
  • John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1991)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Magellanic Premium (1990)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1989)
  • Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1995)

Questions

When was Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. born?
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was born on 29 March 1941 in Philadelphia.
Where did Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. study?
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was educated at Haverford College, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Moorestown Friends School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q192685 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: 2008JosephTaylor.jpg by 2008JosephTaylorWithMarietta.jpg : Betsythedevine Betsy Devine derivative work: Materialscientist ( talk ) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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