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Halton Arp

1927 - 2013

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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. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halton Arp has received more than 122,622 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Halton Arp is the 237th most popular astronomer (up from 272nd in 2019), the 3,617th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,069th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Halton Arp ranks 237 out of 531. Before him are Henri Debehogne, Eleanor F. Helin, James Glaisher, Adriaan Blaauw, Rudolph Minkowski, and Didier Queloz. After him are James Edward Keeler, Johannes Schöner, Wilhelm von Biela, Iosif Shklovsky, Cleostratus, and Freimut Börngen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Halton Arp ranks 150. Before him are Per Oscarsson, Marianne Fredriksson, Gisèle Halimi, Franciszek Macharski, Yitzhak Hofi, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva. After him are Edmund Gettier, Carlos Romero, Geneviève Page, Leontyne Price, Roger Walkowiak, and Theodore Maiman. Among people deceased in 2013, Halton Arp ranks 166. Before him are Anatoly Onoprienko, Lau Kar-leung, Julie Harris, Ronnie Biggs, Syd Field, and Armando Trovajoli. After him are Michael Ansara, Francis Hong Yong-ho, S. N. Goenka, Eero Mäntyranta, Georges Descrières, and Scott Carpenter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 3,617 out of 18,182. Before him are T-Bone Walker (1910), Brooke Adams (1949), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), Joan Copeland (1922), Alan Dershowitz (1938), and Friz Freleng (1906). After him are John Petrucci (1967), Burl Ives (1909), James Edward Keeler (1857), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Don Nelson (1940), and R. A. Salvatore (1959).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 44. Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Milton L. Humason (1891), George Ellery Hale (1868), Nancy Roman (1925), and Eleanor F. Helin (1932). After him are James Edward Keeler (1857), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), William Cranch Bond (1789), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824).

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