The first binary pulsar , PSR B1913 +16 or the `` Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar '' was discovered in 1974 at Arecibo by Joseph Hooton Taylor , Jr. and Russell Hulse , for which they won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics .
The first binary pulsar , PSR B1913 +16 or the `` Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar '' was discovered in 1974 at Arecibo by Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse , for which they won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics .