What is the name of Taylor's discovery partner?
Russell Alan Hulse
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
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Russell Alan Hulse, Taylor's discovery partner, played a crucial role in the detection of the first binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16. Their groundbreaking discovery provided strong evidence for the existence of gravitational waves, a key prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Hulse and Taylor's meticulous observations and analysis of the pulsar's orbital decay rate over several years confirmed the predicted energy loss due to gravitational wave emission.
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