Laureate

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

Born 1941 · United States · Male

Awards

  1. 1992

    Wolf Prize — Physics

    Physics

    for his discovery of an orbiting radio pulsar and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision.

  2. 1993

    Nobel Prize — Physics

    Physics

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