| 1 | Name: | Dr. Joseph Hooton Taylor | |
| Institution: | Princeton University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1992 | ||
| Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 106. Physics | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1941 | ||
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in physics from Haverford College in 1963 and his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1968. Affiliated with the University of Massachusetts between 1969 and 1981, he also served as a consultant in mathematics/neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1980 he joined the faculty of Princeton University; he received a MacArthur Foundation Prize at the same time. Greatly expanding upon his childhood love of radio-frequency electronics, Dr. Taylor's research explores problems in astrophysics and gravitational physics by means of radio-wavelength studies of pulsars. The importance of his efforts was acknowledged in 1992 by the Wolf Prize in Physics, and in 1993 he was co-recipient (with Russell A Hulse) of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the "discovery of a new type of pulsar, thus opening up new possibilities for the study of gravitation." Dr. Taylor served as Dean of the Faculty at Princeton from 1997 to 2003. A prolific author and lecturer, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |||