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Gravitational Collapse

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

3Records
1939Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1939

J Robert Oppenheimer1939

Berkeley · Science / Physics

Oppenheimer analyzes continued gravitational collapse as an implication of general relativity

Robert Oppenheimer1939

Berkeley · Science / Astrophysics

Publishes work with Snyder on continued gravitational contraction of massive stars.

Hartland Snyder Snyder1939

Berkeley · Science / Physics

Snyder coauthors the relativistic collapse model showing how a massive star can pass within its Schwarzschild radius

Names involved

Hartland Snyder SnyderJ Robert OppenheimerRobert Oppenheimer

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