George Volkoff

George Michael Volkoff ( born February 23, 1914 in Moscow, † April 24, 2000 in Vancouver ) was a Canadian physicist.

Along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, he said in 1939 requires the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. In this work he also described an upper bound on the mass of stellar objects of degenerate neutron matter ( neutron star ) are ( Tolman -Oppenheimer - Volkoff limit). It is analogous to the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs.

Volkoff was a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Publications

  • JR Oppenheimer and Volkov GB: On massive neutron cores. In: Phys. Rev. 55 ^ 1939, 374-381
  • Physicist ( 20th century)
  • Canadian
  • Man
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2000
  • Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Member of the Royal Society of Canada
Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit
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