Russell Alan Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. in 1993 for the discovery of a new type of pulsar and his studies on gravitational waves.
In 2004, Hulse joined University of Texas at Dallas and became the Founding Director of UT Dallas Science and Engineering Education Center (SEEC).