Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist. 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. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993, announced October 13, 1993. Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr., “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”. Russell A. Hulse: born 1950, New York, NY, USA. Joseph H. Taylor Jr.: born 1941, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).