Mordehai Milgrom

Mordehai "Moti" Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.Later he studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his doctorate in 1972.Before 1980 he worked primarily on high-energy astrophysics and became well-known for his kinematical model of the star system SS 433.[3] In 1983, he proposed modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxy rotation curve problems,[4][5][6] although preliminary work and discussions on this subject started as early as 1981.[7] Milgrom is a prominent proponent of the hypothesis that Newton's law of universal gravitation should be modified for very small accelerations, typically of the order of 10−11g and less.
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