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Russell Alan Hulse

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Also known as Russell Hulse

American astronomer

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Russell Alan Hulse is an American male figure associated with the United States. His artistic genres include American, classical, film composer, jazz, and not easy listening. He was born on November 28, 1950.

Hulse has authored five works. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Physics collection, with a count of one associated with the Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 5.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1950-03-26
americanclassicalfilm composerjazznot easy listeningscore

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

    · 2013 · cited 34,827x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,186x

  3. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    · 2000 · cited 23,019x

  4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,879x

  5. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

    · 1982 · cited 18,691x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1993

    for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

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Encyclopedic overview

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Russell Alan Hulse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.