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- SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX021 ARLX021 Ham awarded Nobel Prize
- ZCZC AX30 QST de W1AW Special Bulletin 21 ARLX021
- From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 16, 1993
- To all radio amateurs
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- Nobel Prize Winner Attributes Success to Ham Radio
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- The winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics, Princeton
- University's Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, K1JT, attributes his
- success in science to his early involvement in Amateur
- Radio, according to published news accounts.
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- Taylor, who shared this year's award with his former
- student and current Princeton colleague, Dr. Russell A.
- Hulse, told reporters that he developed his scientific
- skills as a ham while a student at Moorestown Friends
- Academy in New Jersey.
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- Taylor earned a bachelor's degree from Haverford College
- in 1963 and a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard
- University. The Nobel committee awarded this year's
- physics prize to Taylor and Hulse for their study of the
- gigantic gravitational forces exerted by pulsars. Their
- results are thought by scientists to confirm many of the
- predictions of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
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