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An astronomical observatory of today looks more like a factory plant than an abode for philosophers. The poetry of constellations has given way to the lure of plate libraries, and the angel of cosmogenic speculation has been caught in a cobweb of facts insistently clamoring for explanations.
Svein Rosseland
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Svein Rosseland
Born:
March 31, 1894
Died:
January 19, 1985
(aged 90)
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Svein Rosseland was a Norwegian astrophysicist and a pioneer in the field of theoretical astrophysics.
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