George Volkoff

Physicist, Academic

1914 – 2000

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Who was George Volkoff?

George Michael Volkoff, OC MBE FRSC was a Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered.

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Born
Feb 23, 1914
Moscow
Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of British Columbia
Employment
  • University of British Columbia
Died
Apr 24, 2000
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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