George Volkoff | |
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Born | George Michael Volkoff February 23, 1914 |
Died | April 24, 2000 | (aged 86)
Awards | Order of Canada Order of the British Empire |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
George Michael Volkoff, OC MBE FRSC (February 23, 1914 – April 24, 2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered.