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Massive Neutron Cores

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939

J. Robert Oppenheimer15 February 1939

Berkeley · Science / Physics

With George Volkoff, shows that sufficiently massive neutron cores have no static equilibrium, helping establish the theoretical path toward gravitational collapse.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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