Chandra Wickramasinghe

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title: Chandra Wickramasinghe
text: Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist of Sinhalese ethnicity. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology. A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle, the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as influential proponents of panspermia. In 1974 they
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description: British astronomer (born 1939)
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date created: 2005-04-21T06:57:51Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T23:53:29Z
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