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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. Arp developed those views in a book, Seeing Red: Redshift, Cosmology and Academic Science, in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Halton Arp is the 253rd most popular astronomer (up from 281st in 2019), the 3,554th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,104th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Halton Arp ranks 253 out of 644. Before him are Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Margherita Hack, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, James Ferguson, William Cranch Bond, and Bertil Lindblad. After him are Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Elizabeth Roemer, and Carl Charlier.

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Among people born in 1927, Halton Arp ranks 150. Before him are Juan Alonso, Allen Newell, Pierre Henry, Laura Betti, Bernard Vukas, and Vladimir Ilyushin. After him are Theodor Wagner, Christian Marquand, Andy Williams, Emmanuel III Delly, Varkey Vithayathil, and Carl Switzer. Among people deceased in 2013, Halton Arp ranks 145. Before him are Pál Csernai, Mariangela Melato, Barbara Lawrence, Margherita Hack, Michael Ansara, and Bruno Metsu. After him are Esther Williams, Tony Sheridan, Henrique Rosa, Eiji Toyoda, Deanna Durbin, and Bebo Valdés.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 3,554 out of 20,380. Before him are Thelma Ritter (1902), William Cranch Bond (1789), Benny Golson (1929), Paul Robeson (1898), Rebbie Jackson (1950), and Brooke Adams (1949). After him are Charlotte Cushman (1816), James F. Byrnes (1882), Bill Nunn (1953), Esther Williams (1921), Duane Allman (1946), and Cynthia Rothrock (1957).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Halton Arp ranks 46. Before him are George Ellery Hale (1868), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Charles T. Kowal (1940), and William Cranch Bond (1789). After him are Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Antonia Maury (1866), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), and Raymond Smith Dugan (1878).

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