Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an Americanphysicist and winner of theNobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisorJoseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
While working on his PhD dissertation, he was a scholar in 1974 at theArecibo Observatory inPuerto Rico ofCornell University.[1] There he worked with Taylor on a large-scale survey for pulsars. It was this work that led to the discovery of the firstbinary pulsar.
In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discoveredbinary pulsar PSR B1913, which is made up of a pulsar and black companionstar.Neutron star rotation emits impulses that are extremely regular and stable in theradio wave region and is nearby condensed material body gravitation (non-detectable in the visible field). Hulse, Taylor, and other colleagues have used this firstbinarypulsar to make high-precision tests ofgeneral relativity, demonstrating the existence ofgravitational radiation. Anapproximation of thisradiant energy is described by the formula of the quadrupolar radiation ofAlbert Einstein (1918).
In 1979, researchers announced measurements of small acceleration effects of the orbital movements of a pulsar. This was initial proof that the system of these two moving masses emits gravitational waves.
In 1993, Hulse and Taylor shared theNobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the first binary pulsar.
