Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

About Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

The co-recipient (with Russell Alan Hulse) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, he is famous for his discovery of a new variety of pulsar, a binary pulsar, which he and Hulse named PSR B1913+16.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new kind of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for research. about gravity ".

Born	March 29, 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notable awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980), Henry Draper Medal (1985), Magellanic Premium (1990), John J. Carty Award (1991), Wolf Prize in Physics (1992), Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
Doctoral students	Victoria Kaspi, Ingrid Stairs
Known for	Pulsars
Fields	Physics
Nationality	United States
Institutions	Princeton University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
Alma mater	Haverford College, Harvard University

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Trivia

He taught at Princeton University from 1980 until 2006.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. before fame

He accepted a post at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after receiving his bachelor's degree in physics from Haverford College and his PhD in astronomy from Harvard University.

Achievement of Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

From 1980 through 2006, he was a professor at Princeton University.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. family life

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Quaker parents Joseph and Sylvia Taylor, and spent the majority of his childhood in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. Harold E. Taylor, his younger brother, was also a physicist.

Associations of Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Both the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize have been awarded to him and fellow scientist Kenneth Wilson.

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