Seife, Charles. "Spin Doctor: Nobel Physicist Joseph Taylor Takes the "Pulse" of Dying Stars", Princeton Alumni Weekly, ngày 11 tháng 10 năm 1995. Truy cập ngày 26 tháng 10 năm 2007. "Born in Philadelphia in 1941, he grew up on a peach farm ở Cinnaminson, New Jersey, that has been in his family for more than two centuries -"a plot of green," he recalls, in the industrial belt along the Delaware River north of Camden.... As a high school student at Moorestown (N.J.) Friends, Taylor excelled in mathematics, a subject he pursued at Haverford College before switching to physics."