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Helge Kragh
Researcher at University of Copenhagen
Publications - 117
Citations - 2004
Helge Kragh is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmology & Big Bang. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 107 publications receiving 1855 citations. Previous affiliations of Helge Kragh include Aarhus University & Niels Bohr Institute.
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The Transfermium Wars
TL;DR: The Transfermium Working Group (TWG) was established in 1985 jointly by IUPAC and IUPAP as discussed by the authors, and the TWG reports of 1991 and 1992, including discovery criteria as well as evaluations of specific discovery claims, were controversial and central parts of what in some quarters became known as the transfermium wars.
Controversial Elements: Priority Disputes and the Discovery of Chemical Elements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the question of whether it really matters who is recognized for the discovery of a new element and why it sometimes becomes controversial, and they proposed a solution to the problem.
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Historical aspects of post-1850 cosmology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on four important themes in the history of cosmological thought which, if taken together, offer a fairly comprehensive account of the key developments that have led to the modern understanding of the universe.
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Expanding Earth and Static Universe: Two Papers of 1935
TL;DR: The German-born astronomer Jacob K. E. Halm (1866-1944) as discussed by the authors proposed an astrophysically based argument for the expanding Earth and a no less original attempt to explain the galactic redshifts on the basis of a static universe.