Chamberlin,Thomas Chrowder

Chamberlin,Thomas Chrowder
Cham·ber·lin (chāmʹbər-lĭn), Thomas Chrowder. 1843-1928.
American geologist who with the astronomer Forest Ray Moulton (1872-1952) proposed (1906) the planetismal hypothesis for the formation of the planets in the solar system.

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