The Early History of Dark Matter
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The history of the discovery of dark matter in the Universe is briefly reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on the early work by Zwicky (1933), Smith (1936), Babcock (1939) and Oort (1940).
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9904251,
title = {The Early History of Dark Matter},
author = {Sidney van den Bergh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9904251},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Will be published in the June 1999 issue of PASP