Historical place archive

Arecibo Observatory in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Arecibo Observatory in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records1 event labels4 people1974–1974

Historical events in Arecibo Observatory

1974

1974
Binary Pulsar
Joseph Hooton Taylor · Astronomy

Taylor studies the binary pulsar whose orbital decay later confirms energy loss by gravitational waves

1974
Binary Pulsar
Joseph Taylor · Astronomy

Analyzes the binary pulsar whose orbital decay later confirms gravitational wave emission.

1974
Binary Pulsar
Russell Alan Hulse · Astronomy

Hulse discovers a binary pulsar that provides an indirect test of gravitational wave emission

1974
Binary Pulsar
Russell Hulse · Astronomy

Discovers the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar, a strong-field test of relativistic gravity.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Arecibo Observatory. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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