Nobel Prize in Physics 1993

Russell A. Hulse

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Prize share: 1/2

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 was awarded jointly to Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr. "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"

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