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Hartland Snyder

American physicist
Hartland Sweet Snyder was an American physicist who, together with Robert Oppenheimer, showed how large stars would collapse to form black holes. This work modeled the gravitational collapse of a pressure-free homogeneous fluid sphere and found... Wikipedia
Born: 1913, Salt Lake City, UT
Died: May 22, 1962 (age 49 years), Berkeley, CA
Known for: Courant–Snyder parameters; Oppenheimer–Snyder model; Strong focusing