Russell A. Hulse's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts

In the record

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American astrophysicist. The birth-card coordinate for November 28 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1993 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

The 5 of Hearts coordinate

Russell A. Hulse's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Russell A. Hulse. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.

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Russell A. Hulse in the public record

He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Weiss. Hulse was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and the Cooper Union. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1975. While working on his PhD dissertation, he was a scholar in 1974 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico of Cornell University. There he worked with Taylor on a large-scale survey for pulsars. It was this work that led to the discovery of the first binary pulsar. In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discovered binary pulsar PSR B1913, which is made up of a pulsar and black companion star.

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He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

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Also on the record

1. Neutron star rotation emits pulses that are extremely regular and stable in the radio wave region and is nearby condensed material body gravitation (non-detectable in the visible field).
2. Hulse, Taylor, and other colleagues have used this first binary pulsar to make high-precision tests of general relativity, demonstrating the existence of gravitational radiation.
3. An approximation of this radiant energy is described by the formula of the quadrupolar radiation of Albert Einstein (1918).
4. In 1979, researchers announced measurements of small acceleration effects of the orbital movements of a pulsar.

Other laureates with this card

• Daniel Nathans — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Dickinson W. Richards — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Prescott — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Gerhard Domagk — 1939 Physiology or Medicine
• José Ramos-Horta — 1996 Peace
• Leland Hartwell — 2001 Physiology or Medicine
• Ragnar Granit — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Sir Norman Angell — 1933 Peace
• Theodor W. Hänsch — 2005 Physics

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What is Russell A. Hulse's birth card?

The 5 of Hearts. November 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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