Halton Arp

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Halton Arp was an American astronomer best known for his influential Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and his controversial challenges to the standard cosmological redshift-distance interpretation.

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Halton Arp canonical 2
H. C. Arp 1

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instanceOf American astronomer
human
academicDegree PhD in astronomy
awardReceived Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy NERFINISHED
Newcomb Cleveland Prize NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath pneumonia
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1927-03-21
dateOfDeath 2013-12-28
doctoralAdvisor Walter Baade NERFINISHED
educatedAt California Institute of Technology
Harvard University
employer Carnegie Institution of Washington NERFINISHED
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics NERFINISHED
Mount Wilson Observatory NERFINISHED
Palomar Observatory NERFINISHED
familyName Arp NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork astronomy
cosmology
extragalactic astronomy
observational astronomy
givenName Halton NERFINISHED
hasBibliographyItem Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies NERFINISHED
Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science NERFINISHED
knownFor Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies NERFINISHED
arguments for non-cosmological redshifts of quasars
challenges to standard cosmological redshift interpretation
studies of peculiar galaxies
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Astronomical Society NERFINISHED
notableIdea intrinsic redshift hypothesis
physical association between high-redshift quasars and low-redshift galaxies
notableWork Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth New York NERFINISHED
New York City
United States of America
placeOfDeath Germany NERFINISHED
Munich NERFINISHED
positionHeld staff astronomer at Palomar Observatory
staff member at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
researchInterest galaxies
large-scale structure of the universe
quasars
redshift anomalies
sexOrGender male
workLocation California, United States
surface form: California

Garching bei München NERFINISHED
Pasadena NERFINISHED

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Arp 2 discoveredBy Halton Arp
Arp 2 namedAfter Halton Arp
Tucana Dwarf Galaxy discoveredBy Halton Arp
this entity surface form: H. C. Arp