Russell Alan Hulse

E918803

Nobel laureate astrophysicist human physicist

Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his co-discovery of the first binary pulsar, which provided key evidence for the existence of gravitational waves.

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Label	Occurrences
Russell Alan Hulse canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11316894 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Russell Alan Hulse
Context triple: [PSR B1913+16, discoveredBy, Russell Alan Hulse]

A. Joseph Taylor Jr.
Joseph Taylor Jr. is a central character in the musical "Allegro," depicted as a small-town doctor's son whose life and moral choices are traced from youth to adulthood.
B. Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
C. Joseph Taylor
Joseph Taylor was a prominent early 17th-century English actor best known for his leading roles in the King’s Men, Shakespeare’s acting company.
D. Barry C. Barish
Barry C. Barish is an American experimental physicist best known for his leading role in the LIGO project that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves and earned him a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
E. Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate widely regarded as a pioneer of X-ray astronomy.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Russell Alan Hulse
Target entity description: Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his co-discovery of the first binary pulsar, which provided key evidence for the existence of gravitational waves.

A. Joseph Taylor Jr.
Joseph Taylor Jr. is a central character in the musical "Allegro," depicted as a small-town doctor's son whose life and moral choices are traced from youth to adulthood.
B. Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
C. Joseph Taylor
Joseph Taylor was a prominent early 17th-century English actor best known for his leading roles in the King’s Men, Shakespeare’s acting company.
D. Barry C. Barish
Barry C. Barish is an American experimental physicist best known for his leading role in the LIGO project that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves and earned him a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
E. Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate widely regarded as a pioneer of X-ray astronomy.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate ⓘ astrophysicist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science in Engineering ⓘ PhD in Physics ⓘ
alive	true ⓘ
awardReceived	Henry Draper Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ
coDiscoveredWith	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1950-11-28 ⓘ
discovered	binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 NERFINISHED ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Cooper Union NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ University of Texas at Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Hulse NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	astrophysics ⓘ physics ⓘ radio astronomy ⓘ
givenName	Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	Hulse–Taylor binary pulsar NERFINISHED ⓘ co-discovery of the first binary pulsar ⓘ providing indirect evidence for gravitational waves ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Physical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
name	Russell Alan Hulse NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
NobelPrizeMotivation	for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation ⓘ
NobelPrizeShare	1/2 ⓘ
notableWork	Observation of a pulsar in a binary system (1975 discovery of PSR B1913+16) NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth	New York City ⓘ
positionHeld	professor ⓘ research physicist ⓘ
researchInterest	binary star systems ⓘ gravitational waves ⓘ pulsars ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 → discoveredBy → Russell Alan Hulse ⓘ

subject surface form: PSR B1913+16

first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 → nobelPrizeLaureate → Russell Alan Hulse ⓘ