biography
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Milne, Edward Arthur
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1950)
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born in Hull, NE England, UK. Assistant director of the Cambridge Solar Physics Observatory (1920–4), he became professor of mathematics at Manchester (1924–8) and Oxford (from 1928). He made notable contributions to the study of cosmic dynamics, and estimated the age of the universe to be c.2 thousand million years. |
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