biography
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at Cambridge, and worked with Hermann Bondi and Fred Hoyle on the steady-state theory of the origin of the universe (1948). He became professor of astronomy at Harvard (1957), and director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell (1959–81). In 1968 he suggested that pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars, as was later confirmed. |
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