Awards & Winners

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

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.)