Halton Arp
Astronomer
1927 – 2013
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Who was Halton Arp?
Halton Christian "Chip" Arp was an American astronomer. He was known for his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift.
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- Born
- Mar 21, 1927
New York City - Also known as
- Halton C Arp
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- California Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Germany
- Died
- Dec 28, 2013
Munich
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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