Russell Alan Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

For the Belizian soccer player, see Russell Hulse (footballer).
Russell Alan Hulse
Born (1950-11-28) November 28, 1950
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCooper Union (BS)
UMass Amherst (PhD)
AwardsNobel Prize in Physics (1993)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUT Dallas
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
NRAO
Doctoral advisorJoseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
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