David Layzer

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David Layzer is affiliated with the following schools: Princeton University, Harvard University

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#2533

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#3731

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#993

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Cosmology

#81

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#86

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#38

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Astrophysics

#414

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#453

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#128

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Astronomy

#706

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#1265

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#322

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PhD Physics Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, David Raymond Layzer was an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and the Donald H. Menzel Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Harvard University. He is known for his cosmological theory of the expansion of the universe, which postulates that its order and information are increasing despite the second law of thermodynamics. He is also known for being one of the most notable researchers who advocated for a Cold Big Bang theory. When he proposed this theory in 1966, he suggested it would solve Olbers' paradox, which holds that the night sky on Earth should be much brighter than it actually is. He also published several articles critiquing hereditarian views on human intelligence, such as those of Richard Herrnstein and Arthur Jensen. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1963, and was also a member of Divisions B and J of the International Astronomical Union. He died in Belmont at the age of 93 in 2019.

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Published Works

On the Instability of Superposed Fluids in a Gravitational Field. (1955) (427)
On a screening theory of atomic spectra (1959) (327)
Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (1987) (224)
The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1949) (207)
Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation (1991) (185)
RELATIVISTIC Z-DEPENDENT THEORY OF MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS (1962) (164)
Arrow of time (1975) (134)
Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology? (1974) (125)
Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (1987) (102)
Second-order Z-dependent theory of many-electron atoms (1964) (78)
Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe (1990) (78)
On the origin of solar magnetic fields (1979) (54)
A Preface to Cosmogony. I. The Energy Equation and the Virial Theorem for Cosmic Distributions. (1963) (52)
Sex Discrimination (1971) (50)
Genetic Variation and Progressive Evolution (1980) (50)
Origin of the Microwave Background . . (1973) (45)
Upper-atmosphere winds and their interpretation II (1968) (43)
On the significance of Newtonian cosmology (1954) (39)
Science or superstition? (A physical scientist looks at the IQ controversy) ☆ (1972) (37)
The Nature of Irreversibility (1985) (32)
The Formation of Stars and Galaxies: Unified Hypotheses (1964) (32)
Masks of the universe (1985) (29)
Theoretical Atomic Transition Probabilities (1968) (29)
Generalization and critique of the wind‐shear theory of sporadic E (1964) (26)
A new model for the distribution of galaxies in space (1956) (25)
Energy Levels in Ca XV (1954) (23)
THEORY OF MIDLATITUDE SPORADIC E. (1972) (21)
On the Fragmentation of Self-Gravitating Gas Clouds. (1963) (20)
MAGNETOTURBULENCE AND ASTRONOMY. I. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF NON-THERMAL RADIO SOURCES (1965) (18)
A macroscopic approach to population genetics. (1978) (18)
Constructing the universe (1984) (16)
Upper-atmosphere winds and their interpretation—II: Turbulence in the lower E-region (1969) (15)
Z Expansion of Hartree-Fock Wave Functions (1963) (15)
Gravity Shock Waves and Stratification in the Upper Atmosphere (1967) (14)
Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics. Volume 17 (1987) (14)
Cosmology and the arrow of time (1972) (12)
The Turbulence Criterion in Stably Stratified Shear Flow and the Origin of Sporadic E (1962) (12)
Is the origin of the solar system connected with the overall structure of the universe (1954) (11)
Why is the Sky Dark at Night? (1966) (11)
Theory of Linear Flame Propagation. Part I. Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of the Steady State (1954) (11)
A rejoinder to Professor Herrnstein's comments (1972) (10)
The Distribution of the Galaxies: Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology, by William C. Saslaw (2008) (10)
Heritability of IQ: methodological questions. (1975) (9)
Cosmic evolution and thermodynamic irreversibility (1970) (9)
The Nature of Pulsars (1968) (9)
Growth of Order in the Universe (2020) (8)
Radio observations of HII regions (1987) (8)
Interpreting the Cosmic Microwave Background (1966) (8)
PROOF OF MOSZKOWSKI'S FORMULA FOR THE VARIANCE OF TERM ENERGIES IN AN ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION OF THE FORM 1n (1963) (7)
Origin of Ultrarelativistic Cosmic Ray Particles (1967) (6)
On the origin of cosmic structure (1992) (5)
The Scattering of Slow Electrons by Atoms (1951) (5)
Jensen's reply: The sounds of silence (1972) (5)
Altruism and natural selection (1978) (4)
Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology. (1962) (4)
On the Acceleration of Ultrarelativistic Electrons and Nuclei in Nonthermal Radio Sources (1969) (4)
a Unified Approach to Cosmology (1967) (4)
Reply [to “Comment on ‘Generalization and critique of the wind‐shear theory of sporadic E’ by David Layzer”] (1964) (4)
New Theory of Mid-latitude Sporadic E (1969) (4)
Origin of the X-ray background (1977) (3)
Cosmology, initial conditions, and the measurement problem (2010) (3)
Theory of Linear Flame Propagation. Part II. Structure of the Steady State (1954) (3)
On Certain Regularities in the Structure of Complex Term Spectra. (1955) (2)
The origin and evolution of sunspots. (1955) (2)
Why are spherical stellar systems relaxed? (1977) (2)
On the Significance of the Cosmological Energy Equation (1966) (2)
Ionospheric cross modulation - a microscopic theory (1965) (2)
Black-Body Radiation in a Cold Universe (1968) (2)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics V.25 (1988) (1)
Physics of Gravitational Systems (1985) (1)
Misconceptions of biometrical IQists. Commentaries. Authors' reply (1999) (1)
Chemistry and cosmology (1993) (1)
Book Review: Cosmogenesis: the growth of order in the universe / Oxford U Press, 1990 (1990) (1)
Energy Levels in the Ground Terms of the Ions a XIII-Ti XVII. (1955) (1)
On Rohrlich's Discussion of the Calcium XV Problem. (1956) (1)
Temporal Processes (1973) (1)
Dynamics of Synergetic Systems. H. Haken (1981) (1)
Book-Review - Constructing the Universe (1984) (1)
Book Review:The Hypercycle: A Principle of Natural Self-Organization. M. Eigen, P. Schuster (1980) (1)
Patterns of term structure in simple spectra. (1951) (1)
The weak-field approximation and the range of gravitational force (1972) (1)
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 22, 1984. (1984) (0)
Critical review criticized (1983) (0)
On the interpretation of galaxy counts. (1957) (0)
A Remark on Observational Cosmology. (1961) (0)
The gaseous galactic halo (1987) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics V.19 (1981) (0)
The New Physics. C. V. Raman (1952) (0)
The Yellow Emission Line of the Solar Corona (1955) (0)
Two Problems in the Theory of Atomic Spectra: Orbit - Interaction and Central Fields. (1950) (0)
Solar puzzles for radio astronomers (1981) (0)
Book Review:The History of Nature C. F. von Wiezsacker (1952) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (1982) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics - V.28 (1991) (0)
Delayed Evolution of Stars in Clusters (1967) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics V.17 (1980) (0)
Cosmologists queried. (1991) (0)
Towards an Elementary Theory of the Periodic Table (1971) (0)
Normal modes of relaxation in stellar systems: dynamical friction and thermalization (1983) (0)
Physics of the solar chromosphere: R. N. Thomas and R. G. Athay,; pp. 422. Interscience, New York. 1961 (1962) (0)
Buchbesprechungen über: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. (Ed. L. GOLDBERG, D. LAYZER, and J. G. PHILLIPS) (Ref. A. UNSÖLD) (1968) (0)
Mechanisms in prominence activity (1955) (0)
PRACTICAL DETERMINATION OF FLAME SPEEDS WITH NEGLECT OF DIFFUSION (1952) (0)
Book-Review - Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (1988) (0)
Sporadic E in Middle Latitudes—a Reply (1967) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics V.21 (1984) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics V.27 (1991) (0)
... and Weinberg revisited (1988) (0)
STABILITY OF A COLLAPSING GAS CLOUD AGAINST FRAGMENTATION. (1967) (0)
Galaxies and Cosmology (2003) (0)
Spectroscopy of circumstellar shells (1987) (0)
Response : Heritability of IQ: Methodological Questions (1975) (0)
Preliminary Report on a Statistical Analysis of the Lick Galaxy Counts. (1963) (0)
On the theoretical interpretation of wind and ionization profiles (1965) (0)
Comments on the paper entitled: Turbulence, billows and gravity waves in a high shear region of the upper atmosphere by K.H. Lloyd, C.H. Low and R.A. Vincent (1974) (0)
The structure of matter and the structure of the astronomical universe (2009) (0)
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Volume 27, 1989. (1989) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics - V.20 (1983) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 23 (1986) (0)
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.9. (1971) (0)
Z‐expansion calculations of energy levels and transition probabilities in many‐electron atoms (2009) (0)
Sketch for a theory of order (1981) (0)
Atoms, Stars, and Nebulae: Remembering Donald H. Menzel (2002) (0)
On the Spectra of Extragalactic Radio Sources. (1965) (0)
Book-Review - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics - V.18 (1981) (0)
Buchbesprechungen über: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Vol. 3. (Ed. GOLDBERG, L. , A. J. DEUTSCH und D. LAYZER) (Ref. A. UNSÖLD) (1966) (0)
Ionospheric Cross Modulation: A Microscopic Theory l (2010) (0)
Theoretical Transition Probabilities. Introductory Report. (1961) (0)
FORMATION OF ASTRONOMICAL SYSTEMS IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE. (1967) (0)

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