Carl Keenan Seyfert
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican astronomer (1911-1960)
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Carl Keenan Seyfert was an American astronomer. He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies, which are named Seyfert galaxies after him. Seyfert's Sextet, a group of galaxies, is also named after him.
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United StatesCategory
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Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1911 to 1960 · aged 49
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