Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Taylor in 2008
Born	(1941-03-29) March 29, 1941 (age 83) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Haverford College Harvard University
Known for	Pulsars, WSJT-X
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980) Henry Draper Medal (1985) Magellanic Premium (1990) John J. Carty Award (1991) Wolf Prize in Physics (1992) Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Princeton University University of Massachusetts Amherst Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
Doctoral students	Victoria Kaspi, Ingrid Stairs

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics^[1] for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."