Biography:György Paál

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György Paál (Budapest, 1934 – Budapest, 1992)[1] was a Hungarian astronomer and cosmologist.

Work

In the late 1950s Paál studied the quasar and galaxy cluster distributions. In 1970 from redshift quantization he came up with the idea that the Universe might have nontrivial topological structure.[2] [3] These are the oldest papers that associate real observations with the possibility that our universe could have nontrivial topology.[4]

Membership

Cosmological Committee of IAU[1]

Awards

László Detre award.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "A keresett weboldalt 2020. December 15-én műszaki okokból leállítottuk". http://members.iif.hu/visontay/ponticulus/rovatok/limes/bartha-magyar-csillagaszok.html. 
  2. Paál, G. (1970). "Red shifts and Quasars". Science Journal 6 (6): 101. 
  3. Paál, G. (1971). "The global structure of the universe and the distribution of quasi-stellar objects". Acta Physica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 30: 51–54. doi:10.1007/bf03157173. Bibcode1971AcPhH..30...51P. 
  4. Luminet, Jean-Pierre; Lachièze-Rey, Marc (1995). "Cosmic Topology". Physics Reports 254 (3): 135–214. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(94)00085-h. Bibcode1995PhR...254..135L.