Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist known for his co-discovery of the first binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16, in 1974, along with Joseph H. Taylor Jr. This discovery provided crucial evidence for the existence of gravitational waves, as the emitted gravitational radiation from the binary system led to a measurable decay in the system’s orbital period, consistent with predictions from Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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