Born  1913
Died  1962
With his teacher, J. Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist Hartland Snyder showed (1939), using quantum mechanics and general relativity, that a collapsing massive star will continue to collapse until it forms what is now called a black hole.
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Michelmore, Peter (1969). The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
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(2007). Snyder, Hartland. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1296
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