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chamberlin, thomas chrowder

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Cham·ber·lin   (chām'bər-lĭn)   
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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Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder

U.S. geologist and educator who proposed the planetesimal hypothesis, which held that a star once passed near the Sun, pulling away from it matter that later condensed and formed the planets.

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