The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993
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Russell A. Hulse
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
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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