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Russell A. Hulse
(28 Nov 1950 - )
American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery (1974) of the first binary pulsar, a system of two pulsars separated by only several times the Earth to Moon distance.
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Science Quotes by Russell A. Hulse (7 quotes)
Entering the Bronx High School of Science in 1963 … I found myself in a school environment which explicitly emphasized what I found most interesting in life. … My biggest home project while at Bronx Science was building an amateur radio telescope …. The electronics were an odd mix of old television parts, military surplus power supplies, receivers and the like combined with other components I built myself. Unfortunately, the telescope never did work particularly well in terms of detecting radio sources…, but I did enjoy myself and I learned a lot in the process.
— Russell A. Hulse
In Nobel Prize 1933 Biography on nobelprize.org website.
I quickly showed an unusual level of curiosity about the world around me as a child, and that this transformed itself into an interest in science at a very early age. … I ran through a seemingly endless series of interests involving chemistry sets, mechanical engineering construction sets, biology dissection kits, butterfly collecting, photography, telescopes, electronics and many other things over the years.
— Russell A. Hulse
In Nobel Prize 1933 Biography on nobelprize.org website.
Much of what I have found so interesting about both the natural and man-made world has involved how individual, often autonomous, elements combine to make a functioning whole, either by design or by self-organization. I have thus started to be interested in various aspects of the new so-called “sciences of complexity”, especially as they can be explored using computer modeling.
— Russell A. Hulse
In Nobel Prize 1933 Biography on nobelprize.org website.
My interest in science has never been so much a matter of pursuing a career per se, but rather an expression of my personal fascination with knowing “How the World Works”, especially as it could be understood directly with hands-on experience.
— Russell A. Hulse
In Nobel Prize 1933 Biography on nobelprize.org website.
Science was never a career to me, but a way of life. If you can give that to kids, it’s a wonderful gift.
— Russell A. Hulse
From Dallas Morning News (19 Sep 2004), as quoted and cited on aps.org website.
Though I had some elementary school teachers with whom I got along well, there were some real problems with others who found me and my intense interest in science difficult to understand and deal with.
— Russell A. Hulse
In Nobel Prize 1933 Biography on nobelprize.org website.
UT Dallas has shown a strong commitment to contributing to its local communities through such science outreach programs, which is what attracted me here to help make such programs a reality.
— Russell A. Hulse
As quoted on University of Texas at Dallas biography webpage for 'Dr. Russell A. Hulse'.
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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