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During our Tuesday night May 1 discussion with Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her discovery of pulsars (rotating neutron stars) in 1967 while she was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge in UK, Dr. Bell talked about the Nobel Prize awarded her thesis supervisor Dr. Antony Hewish being the first Nobel Prize awarded an Astronomer. She also mentioned that Russell Hulse and Taylor soon followed.

This is the same Russell Hulse that was hired by UTD in 2007, as a co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics,” to devote his energies to a major challenge of tomorrow- “furthering the science and math education among our youth, from kindergarten through college, augmented by $1 million from the UT System Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention Program.” From the Dallas Morning News, August 19, 2007.

The project must have discover a “Large Black Hole” because I live within four miles of UTD and I have heard no further information since 2007, and I have searched for information at UTD?????????? As Teachers we hear many such dreams but we see
very few results. Maybe “Large Black Holes” are much more common than Physicist believe.

Our Physics 523 and Physics 526 Course Text, Modern Physics by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn, page 116, does have evidence of Hulse and Taylor as quoted below.

“The best experimental evidence that exists thus far in support of the gravitational wave prediction is indirect. In 1974 Hulse and Taylor discovered the first binary pulsar, ie, a pair of neutron stars orbiting each other, one of which was emitting periodic flashes of electromagnetic radiation (pulses). In an exquisitely precise experiment they showed that the gradual decrease in the orbital period of the pair was in good agreement with the general relativistic prediction for the rate of loss of gravitational energy via the emission of gravitational waves” from our Atomic Physic 526 and Advanced Atomic Physics 523 text Modern Physics by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn, page 116.