Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist . He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar , a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". ^[1]

Taylor Jr. was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He studied at Harvard University .

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• "Joseph Taylor" . Department of Physics. Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University . Archived from the original on 2004-04-01 . Retrieved 2021-07-24 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link )
• "Nobel Physics laureates" . nobel.se . 1993.

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