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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Halton Arp
Born: March 21, 1927
Died: December 28, 2013 (aged 86)
Bio: Halton Christian "Chip" Arp was an American astronomer. He was known for his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies.
Known for:
- Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies (1987)