Mordehai Milgrom

Mordehai Milgrom
Born	1946 Iaşi, Romania
Nationality	Israel
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute
Known for	Modified Newtonian dynamics

Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is most famous for his proposal of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxy rotation curve problems, in 1981. Milgrom suggests that Newton's Second Law be modified for very small accelerations.

Milgrom is married and has three daughters.

See also

• Cosmic rays
• Gamma ray burst
• Gamma ray and x-ray sources.

References

• Milgrom, Mordehai (Aug. 2002), "Does Dark Matter Really Exist?", Scientific American: 42–50, 52 
• Schilling, Govert (April 2007), "Battlefield Galactica: Dark Matter vs. MOND", Sky & Telescope: 30–36 

External links

• Dark Matter Doubters not Silenced Yet

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Name	Milgrom, Mordehai
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Date of birth	1946
Place of birth	Iaşi, Romania
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