Binary Pulsar Discovery
Hulse discovers the pulsar PSR B1913+16 during an Arecibo survey, revealing a compact binary system that becomes a precise laboratory for testing gravitational-wave energy loss.
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Russell Alan Hulse Biography and Timeline
Follow Russell Alan Hulse through 3 dated historical records for United States of America.
Russell Alan Hulse, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1974–1993Years on this page
1974
Binary Pulsar
Hulse discovers a binary pulsar that provides an indirect test of gravitational wave emission
1993
Nobel Prize for Binary Pulsar
Hulse shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the binary pulsar whose orbital behaviour opened a new experimental route to studying gravitation and gravitational radiation.
Records, sources and methodology
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