George Volkoff
Canadian physicist
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George Michael Volkoff, OC MBE FRSC was a Russian-Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. Wikipedia
Born: February 23, 1914, Moscow, Russia
Died: April 24, 2000 (age 86 years), Vancouver, Canada
Academic advisor: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Awards: Order of Canada and Order of the British Empire