About György Paál
Lived 1934 – 1992 (aged 57–58). György Paál was a Hungarian astronomer.
György Paál (Budapest, 1934 – Budapest, 1992) 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.
These are the oldest papers that associate real observations with the possibility that our universe could have nontrivial topology.
Membership
Cosmological Committee of IAU
Awards
László Detre award.
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Who was György Paál?
Hungarian astronomer
When was György Paál born?
György Paál was born in 1934 in Budapest.
When did György Paál die?
György Paál died on 6 March 1992 in Budapest.
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György Paál was an astronomer.
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György Paál was Hungarian.
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