Born Hanover, Germany, 18 October 1902
Died Hanover, Germany, 31 July 1980
In the cosmology of physicist Pascual Jordan, Isaac Newton 's gravitational constant is replaced with a term that varies with time. Jordan also helped found quantum mechanics, which describes many astrophysical processes.
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Schucking, Engelbert L. (1999). “Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht, and a Variable Gravitational Constant.” Physics Today 52, no. 10: 26‐31.
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(2007). Jordan, Ernst Pascual. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_731
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