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| 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 ] ] . | 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 ] ] . | ||
| Tifft has proposed a speculative idea regarding the quantization of ] to explain observations he says indicate redshift quantization. | |||
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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 .
Tifft has proposed a speculative idea regarding the quantization of cosmological time to explain observations he says indicate redshift quantization.