Russell A. Hulse (right) and Joseph H. Taylor seated with unidentified woman at a reception with Massachusetts state legislators honoring their Nobel Prize in Physics
Russell A. Hulse (right) and Joseph H. Taylor seated with unidentified woman at a reception with Massachusetts state legislators honoring their Nobel Prize in Physics
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From a series of images of a reception with Massachusetts legislators for Nobel laureates in Physics: Russell Hulse (then a UMass grad student) and Joseph H. Taylor (member of the faculty at UMass Amherst) were awarded the prize for their discovery of the first binary pulsar in 1974 and their indirect observation of gravitational waves.