Halton Arp
Halton Christian "Chip" Arp (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer. He is remembered for his 1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual looking galaxies and presented their images.
Halton Arp | |
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Halton Arp in London, October 2000 | |
| Born | March 21, 1927 New York City, United States |
| Died | December 28, 2013 (aged 86) Munich, Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Intrinsic redshift Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1960) Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1960) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Palomar Observatory Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Baade |
| Doctoral students | Susan Kayser |
| Website | www |
Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift. Arp developed those views in a book, Seeing Red: Redshift, Cosmology and Academic Science in 1998.
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