Arthur Michael Wolfe
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Arthur Michael Wolfe is an American
astrophysicist, professor
and the former Director of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego
. Together with Rainer Kurt Sachs
, he authored the Sachs-Wolfe effect
.
United States
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astrophysicist, professor
Professor
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and the former Director of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
. Together with Rainer Kurt Sachs
Rainer Kurt Sachs
Rainer Kurt Sachs is a German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer. In particular he and Arthur Michael Wolfe were the authors of the Sachs-Wolfe effect, which concerns a property of the Cosmic microwave background radiation.- Life and career :He was born in Frankfurt am Main...
, he authored the Sachs-Wolfe effect
Sachs-Wolfe effect
The Sachs–Wolfe effect, named after Rainer Kurt Sachs and Arthur Michael Wolfe, is a property of the cosmic microwave background radiation , in which photons from the CMB are gravitationally redshifted, causing the CMB spectrum to appear uneven...
.