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Nobel Laurate in Physics shared the amazing history of an Universe

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Adam Riess, Nobel Laurate in Physics (2011), visited the University of Puerto Rico to give a lecture on The amazing story of an accelerated Universe. Around 500 people attended the event sponsored by COFI (Cosmology and Physics Institute of the Americas).

 

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20th anniversary of a Nobel Prize, made in Puerto Rico

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In 1975, Dr. Joseph Taylor and his graduate student Russell Hulse discovered pulsars using the Arecibo Radiotelescope. In 1993 they won a Nobel Prize in Physics for that discovery, which helped confirm Einstein's theory of relativity.

 

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20th anniversary of a Nobel Prize, made in Puerto Rico

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What do Albert Einstein and the Arecibo Observatory have in common? Twenty-years ago Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse won a Nobel Prize for their discovery of pulsars, using the Arecibo Observatory to detect these binary stars. This discovery offered evidence of Einstein's theory of relativity.

 

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