Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	29-March-1941
Place of Birth	Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Profession	Astrophysicist, Astronomer
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."

Awards by Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr..

1993

Nobel Prize in Physics	(for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation)

1992

Wolf Prize in Physics	(For his discovery of an orbiting radio pulsar and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision.)

1991

Albert Einstein Medal
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science	(Physics. For developing pulsar timing experiments with exquisite accuracy to make fundamental studies of gravitation, including gravitational radiation and high-order tests of general relativity.)

1985

Henry Draper Medal	(For his pioneering studies of pulsars, including the fundamental measurements of orbit perturbations by gravitational radiation and other general relativistic effects.)

1980

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

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