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Russell Alan Hulse
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<p>Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and winner of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a>, shared with his thesis advisor <a href="/facts/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor_Jr./Dn44wNWD">Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.</a>, "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". </p>