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Russell Alan Hulse

American astronomer

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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". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss.

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Born
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Place of birth
New York City wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, researcher wd
Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Cooper Union, Bronx High School of Science wd

Awards wd

  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003)

Questions

When was Russell Alan Hulse born?
Russell Alan Hulse was born on 28 November 1950 in New York City.
Where did Russell Alan Hulse study?
Russell Alan Hulse was educated at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Cooper Union, Bronx High School of Science.

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  1. Wikipedia (English): Russell Alan Hulse · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q156286 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Russell Alan Hulse.jpg by ENERGY.GOV (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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