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Life beyond the Nobel: Russell Hulse’s path from binary pulsar discoverer to plasma physicist

02 Oct 2021 Margaret Harris

In the run-up to the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics on 5 October, we’re running a series of blog posts looking at previous recipients and what they did after their Nobel prize-winning work. Margaret Harris examines the circumstances that shaped the career of 1993 laureate Russell Hulse

Artist's impression of a binary pulsar, showing two glowing objects orbiting each other and sending out beams of radiation
Two-body problem Artist's impression of a binary pulsar. (Courtesy: Australia Telescope National Facility / CSIRO / John Rowe Animations)
In the summer of 1974, Russell Hulse was down in the weeds of collecting data for his PhD thesis whe

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