Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 84 |
| Date of birth | March 29,1941 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Philadelphia |
| Pennsylvania | |
| United States | |
| Field | Physics |
| Books | Pulsars |
| Siblings | Harold E. Taylor |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Wolf Prize in Physics | |
| Albert Einstein Medal | |
| Henry Draper Medal | |
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | |
| Karl Schwarzschild Medal | |
| MacArthur Fellowship | |
| John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science | |
| Magellanic Premium | |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Haverford College | |
| Moorestown Friends School | |
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| ID | 733890 |
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Life story
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 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."