Physics: Russell Hulse

Physics: Russell Hulse
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Russell Hulse (1950) Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American astrophysicist.

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Russell Hulse (1950 ) Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American astrophysicist.

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Why is Russell Hulse remembered? Ever y major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Russell Hulse was one of those people.

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About Russell Hulse Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American ast rophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss.