Halton Arp
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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.
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Born | (1927-03-21)March 21, 1927 New York City, United States |
Died | December 28, 2013(2013-12-28) (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 |
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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.[1]