29 March 1979
First Gravitational Lens
Co-discovers Q0957+561, the first confirmed gravitationally lensed quasar.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kitt Peak in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Co-discovers Q0957+561, the first confirmed gravitationally lensed quasar.
Provenance
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