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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Joseph H. Taylor Jr and Russell A. Hulse for their discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.   Two stars for general relativity On 2 July 1974…

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I was born November 28, 1950 in New York City, the son of Alan and Betty Joan Hulse. My parents tell me that I quickly showed an unusual level of curiosity about the world around me as a child, and that this transformed itself into an interest in science at a very early age. For…

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I was born on March 29, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second son of Joseph Hooton Taylor and Sylvia Evans Taylor. When I was seven we moved back to the family farm in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey, then operated by my paternal grandfather. We were three children, joined later by three more, plus two Evans…

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It appears that I was born in hospital in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on July 15, 1918. My first memories are of a farm near Milk River where I lived with my mother and father and my sister, Alice Evelyn, and a variety of farm and domestic animals. My father, Israel Bertram Brockhouse, had homesteaded with…

Presentation Speech by Dr. H.R. Törnebladh, President of on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The last decade’s record of development in the physical sciences is outstanding for the discoveries, as unexpected as they are impressive, that have been made. The Royal Academy of Sciences has been accorded the task…