Halton Arp
American astronomer
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Halton Christian "Chip" Arp was an American astronomer. He is remembered for his 1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual looking galaxies and presented their images. Wikipedia
Born: March 21, 1927, New York, NY
Died: December 28, 2013 (age 86 years), Munich, Germany
Awards: Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1960) and Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1960)
Children: Andrice Arp
Doctoral students: Susan Kayser
Known for: Intrinsic redshift; Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
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