Mordehai Milgrom

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Mordehai Milgrom

Born 1946
Iaşi, Romania
Nationality  Israel
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions Weizmann Institute
Known for Modified Newtonian dynamics

Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is most famous for his proposal of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxy rotation curve problems, in 1981. Milgrom suggests that Newton's Second Law be modified for very small accelerations.

Milgrom is married and has three daughters.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Milgrom, Mordehai (Aug. 2002), "Does Dark Matter Really Exist?", Scientific American: 42–50, 52 
  • Schilling, Govert (April 2007), "Battlefield Galactica: Dark Matter vs. MOND", Sky & Telescope: 30–36 

[edit] External links


Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
Interaction
Toolbox
Print/export
Languages