Russell Alan Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse
Hulse at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Born	(1950-11-28) November 28, 1950 (age 73) New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cooper Union (BS) UMass Amherst (PhD)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
Scientific career
Institutions	UT Dallas Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NRAO
Doctoral advisor	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph 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".