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unusual facts about cosmologist



Bruce Winstein

Bruce Winstein (25 September 1943, Los Angeles – 28 February 2011) was an experimental physicist and cosmologist noted for his early work in elementary particle physics, particularly work toward demonstrating a serious asymmetry between particles and their anti-particles (CP violation).

David Wilkinson

David Todd Wilkinson (1935-2002), cosmologist at Princeton University, after whom the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe is named

Gamow

George Gamow (1904-1968), Russian born physicist and cosmologist

Heinz Pagels

The cosmologist David Schramm described Pagels' first book The Cosmic Code as "a beautiful account of modern physics".

Hitler: A Film from Germany

The Cosmologist is partly based on Hans Hörbiger, creator of the Welteislehre, but the Cosmologist is portrayed as still being alive during Hitler's reign and after World War II, and looks more like Leonardo da Vinci or Socrates than Hörbiger.

Icke

Vincent Icke, a Dutch cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist after whom the asteroid 7508 Icke was named

Igor Novikov

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (born 1935), Russian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

John Mather

John C. Mather (born 1946), American Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist and cosmologist

Kenneth Lyen

In addition, he has written and staged 20 musicals in Singapore, including: Big Bang!(1995): based on the life of Stephen Hawking, cosmologist.

Michael Heller

Michał Heller (born 1936), Polish professor of philosophy, cosmologist and priest

Ronald Kantowski

Ronald Kantowski is a theoretical cosmologist, well known in the field of general relativity as the author, together with Rainer K. Sachs, of the Kantowski-Sachs dust solutions to the Einstein field equation.

St Edmund's College, Cambridge

The cosmologist Georges Lemaître, the Big Bang theorist, was a former graduate student 1923-24 at the college, supervised by Sir Arthur Eddington.

Sticky bead argument

The anonymous referee, who—as the current editor of the Physical Review recently confirmed, all parties now being deceased—was the combative cosmologist, Howard Percy Robertson, pointed out the error described below, and the manuscript was returned to the authors with a note from the editor asking them to revise the paper to address these concerns.

Tammann

Gustav Andreas Tammann, cosmologist, grandson of Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann

The Cubs Fan's Guide To Happiness

The Cubs Fan's Guide to Happiness is a baseball book written by a George Ellis (not cosmologist George Ellis).

Tipler

Frank J. Tipler (born 1947), a mathematical physicist and cosmologist

White Violet Center for Eco-Justice

The center has hosted a variety of speakers including cosmologist Brian Swimme, beekeeper Günther Hauk, author Judy Cannato and essayist Scott Russel Sanders.


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