Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
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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
Early life and education
Taylor was born in
He received a B.A. in physics at Haverford College in 1963, and a Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University in 1968. After a brief research position at Harvard, Taylor went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, eventually becoming Professor of Astronomy and Associate Director of the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Taylor's thesis work was on
Career
Taylor immediately went to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia, and participated in the discovery of the first pulsars discovered outside Cambridge. Since then, he has worked on all aspects of pulsar astrophysics.
In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discovered the first
The orbit of this binary system is slowly shrinking as it loses energy because of emission of
Taylor has used this first
Amateur radio
Joe Taylor first obtained his
His amateur radio accomplishments have included mounting an 'expedition' in April 2010 to use the
He has been active in developing several computer programs and communications protocols, including WSPR and WSJT ("Weak Signal/Joe Taylor"), a software package and protocol suite that utilizes computer-generated messages in conjunction with radio transceivers to communicate over long distances with other amateur radio operators.
WSJT is useful for passing short messages via non-traditional radio communications methods, such as
Honors and awards
- Heineman Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1980)(inaugural)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)[4]
- National Academy of Sciences (1985)[5]
- Tomalla Foundation Prize (1987)
- Magellanic Premium (1990)
- Albert Einstein Medal (1991)
- John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science of the National Academy of Sciences (1991) (physics)[6]
- Wolf Prize in Physics (1992)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1992)[7]
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1995)[8]
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1997)
- Asteroid M.P.C. 57952).[10]
Taylor was among the first group of
See also
- Harold E. Taylor, brother – physicist
References
- ^ "Joseph H. Taylor Jr". NobelPrize.org. biographical.
- ^
Seife, Charles (11 October 1995). "Spin doctor: Nobel physicist Joseph Taylor takes the 'pulse' of dying stars". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
Born in Philadelphia in 1941, he grew up on a peach farm in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, that has been in his family for more than two centuries – "a plot of green," he recalls, in the industrial belt along the Delaware River north of Camden. ... As a high school student at Moorestown (N.J.) Friends, Taylor excelled in mathematics, a subject he pursued at Haverford College before switching to physics.
- ^ a b Taylor, J.H.; et al. (22 November 2010). "Moonbounce at Arecibo" (PDF). Department of Physics. Princeton University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "Chapter T" (PDF). Book of Members, 1780–2010. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ "Henry Draper Medal". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^
"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. 1995.
- ^ "(81859) Joetaylor". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
External links
- "Joseph Taylor". Department of Physics. Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University.
- "Nobel Physics laureates". nobel.se. 1993.
- Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1993 Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity