AKA Joseph Hooten Taylor, Jr.

Born: 24-Mar-1941
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA

Gender: Male
Religion: Quaker
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discovered first pulsar

Father: Joseph Hooton Taylor
Mother: Sylvia Evans Taylor
Wife: Marietta Bisson Taylor

    Administrator: Moorestown Friends School
    University: BA, Haverford College (1963)
    University: PhD Astronomy, Harvard University (1968)
    Professor: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1969-81)
    Professor: Princeton University (1981-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1993 (with Russell A. Hulse)
    Wolf Prize in Physics 1992
    Henry Draper Medal 1985

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