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Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan On A New Theory Of Weizsaker On The Origin Of The Solar System In Reviews Of Modern Physics Am

CHANDRASEKHAR, Subrahmanyan. “On a New Theory of Weizsaker on the Origin of the Solar System”, in Reviews of Modern Physics, American Physical Society, vol 18/1, January 1946,  pp 94-102 in the issue of pp 1-149.  Original wrappers. Fine copy. $200

“A Nobel Laureate [awarded in 1983 “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”] honored for his extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics, Chandrasekhar is well known for his discovery of the limiting mass (Chandrasekhar limit) of a star that could become a white dwarf.”–Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, online. 

“In 1938, Weizsäcker developed a theory on the formation of the Solar System, based on considerations regarding the unequal share of lighter and heavier elements in the Sun and the Solar System’s terrestrial planets….According to the theory, the Sun and its planets evolved from a gas cloud made up of 99% hydrogen and helium, and 1% of heavier elements. Some 10% of the cloud remained around the Sun as an extensive atmosphere during an initial phase, and the 1% of heavier elements within this 10% of the total mass of the cloud would tally with the fraction of roughly 1% that the planets contribute to the mass of the Solar System today….”–Wikipedia

Also: a 2pp paper of corrections by Einstein and E.G. Straus “The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields Surrounding the Individual Stars”, pp 148-9.  

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