People · researcher
James Gunn
1938– · Astronomy
- Lifespan
- 1938–
- Field
- Astronomy
- Nationality
- American
Known For
With Bruce Peterson, the 1965 prediction that neutral intergalactic hydrogen would blank out a quasar's spectrum shortward of Lyman-α — the test that dates the end of reionization. Later the architect of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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