The scientist Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 29-3-1941 (83 years old)

Population of US 1941: 133,402,471

Global rank: #14842

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Who is The scientist Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.?
The co-recipient (with Russell Alan Hulse) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, he is best known for discovering a new breed of pulsar, a binary pulsar, which he and Hulse named PSR B1913 + 16.
He taught at Princeton University from 1980 until 2006.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After earning a bachelor's degree in physics from Haverford College and a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University, he accepted a professorship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Family life info

The son of Quakers Joseph and Sylvia Taylor, he spent his early years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the remainder of his youth in Cinnamson Township, New Jersey. His brother, Harold E. Taylor, also had a career as a physicist.

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Taylor and fellow physicist Kenneth Wilson are both recipients of the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize.

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When was The scientist Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. born?
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. birthday 29-3-1941 (at the age of 83).
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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. was born in Pennsylvania, . is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.'s global rank is 14842 and whose rank is 14 in list of famous The scientist. Population of US in 1941 is about 133,402,471 persons.
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Events in 1941 and 29-3

Events in US in the birth year of Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

  • Roosevelt enunciates "four freedoms" in his Jan. 6 message to Congress.
  • Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, giving President the power to sell, lend, and lease war supplies to other nations.

Birthday Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (29-3) in history

  • Day 29-3 year 1848: For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. An ice jam in the Niagara River above the rim of the falls caused the water to stop.
  • Day 29-3 year 1867: The North America Act was passed by the British parliament, creating the dominion of Canada.
  • Day 29-3 year 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians and were sentenced to death.
  • Day 29-3 year 1971: Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre.
  • Day 29-3 year 1973: The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
  • Day 29-3 year 1999: The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, at 10,006.78.
  • Day 29-3 year 2002: Israel declared Yasir Arafat an enemy.
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