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| '''William G. Tifft''' is Emeritus Professor of astronomer at the ], whose main interests are in ], ] and what Tifft calls redshift problems (see ]).<ref> </ref> He was influential in the development of the first ]s . | '''William G. Tifft''' is Emeritus Professor of astronomer at the ], whose main interests are in ], ] and what Tifft calls redshift problems (see ]).<ref> </ref> He was influential in the development of the first ]s . | ||
| He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University (1954), and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology (1958). | He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University (1954), and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology (1958) where he wrote his dissertation on ] ] . | ||
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William G. Tifft is Emeritus Professor of astronomer at the University of Arizona, whose main interests are in galaxies, superclusters and what Tifft calls redshift problems (see Redshift quantization). He was influential in the development of the first redshift surveys .
He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University (1954), and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology (1958) where he wrote his dissertation on photoelectric photometry .