Joseph H. Taylor (left, speaking) and Russell A. Hulse: seated at a microphone at a press conference at UMass Amherst following receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Item Information

Title:
Joseph H. Taylor (left, speaking) and Russell A. Hulse: seated at a microphone at a press conference at UMass Amherst following receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Description:
From a series of images of a press conference for Nobel laureates in Physics: Russell Hulse (then a UMass grad student) and Joseph H. Taylor (member of the faculty at UMass Amherst) were awarded the prize for their discovery of the first binary pulsar in 1974 and their indirect observation of gravitational waves.
Date:
May 13, 1994
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 2 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
University of Massachusetts Amherst Photo Negative Collection
Subjects:
Astronomers--Massachusetts--Amherst--Photographs
Physicists--Massachusetts--Amherst--Photographs
Nobel Prize winners--Massachusetts--Amherst--Photographs
University of Massachusetts Amherst--Alumni--Photographs
University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty--Photographs
Hulse, R. A.
Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton)
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Astronomy
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampshire (county) > Amherst
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg171-sl94-r730-i005
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Amherst (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
murg171-sl94-r730-i005