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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 129,017 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Halton Arp is the 281st most popular astronomer (down from 237th in 2019), the 4,104th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,607th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Halton Arp ranks 281 out of 644. Before him are Paul Wild, Kidinnu, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Vladimir Albitsky, John Machin, and Benjamin Apthorp Gould. After him are Allan Sandage, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Charles T. Kowal, Carl Charlier, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and John Michell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Halton Arp ranks 192. Before him are Emmanuel III Delly, Richard Johnson, Rachel Roberts, Claude Abbes, Thanin Kraivichien, and Adhemar da Silva. After him are Carlos Romero, Jarl Kulle, Dany Robin, Cecil Bødker, Claudio Brook, and Victor Wong. Among people deceased in 2013, Halton Arp ranks 198. Before him are Henrique Rosa, Richard C. Sarafian, Heinz Flohe, Yusef Lateef, Otto Muehl, and Alain Mimoun. After him are Martin Koeman, Ivan Bodiul, Gerrie Mühren, Jimmy Fontana, Josip Kuže, and Kevin Ayers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 4,104 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Lynne Cheney (1941), Lester Germer (1896), David Zucker (1947), and Clark Gregg (1962). After him are Chita Rivera (1933), Sarah Clarke (1972), Warren Oates (1928), Chuck Schuldiner (1967), Allan Sandage (1926), and Chico Marx (1887).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 50. Before him are George Ellery Hale (1868), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), William Cranch Bond (1789), and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824). After him are Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), Antonia Maury (1866), and Adam Riess (1969).

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