On Friday, February 3, delegates and attendees at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) had the pleasure of listening to Joe Taylor, K1JT, share his vision of the future of radiocommunication. Taylor — an ARRL Member — won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1993 for the discovery of a binary pulsar, a discovery which has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation. After the speech, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary General Dr Hamadoun Touré, HB9EHT, presented Taylor with the ITU Gold Medal in recognition of Dr Taylor’s outstanding contribution to the research in the field of radiocommunication.

You can view Dr Taylor’s speech on YouTube, courtesy of Andy Clegg, W4JE.

http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​F​0​2​8​R​K​k​L​efI

On the picture IARU Region 2 President Reinaldo Leandro YV5AM with Dr. Joe Taylor, K1JT.

Source: ARRL (http://​www​.arrl​.org). Photo: ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN

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