Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843–1928)
American astronomer at the University of Chicago who, together with Moulton,
developed a new version of the catastrophic
hypothesis about the origin of the planets (see Chamberlin-Moulton
planetesimal hypothesis). Related category
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