20th anniversary of a Nobel Prize, made in Puerto Rico
Submitted on 25 September 2013 - 2:36pm
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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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