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William Hunter McCrea, 94, Expert on Sun's Ingredients
1999
Overview
Sir William Hunter McCrea, a British astronomer and mathematician who as a young researcher advanced the knowledge of the Sun's composition and more recently set forth his own theories on the formation of planetary systems and galaxies, died April 25. He was 94 and lived in Lewes, Sussex. Later spectroscopy hinted at the presence of hydrogen in the Sun's atmosphere, and the German astronomer Albrecht Unsold suggested in 1928 that hydrogen, in fact, was the most common element. William McCrea, a brilliant mathematician and research student at Cambridge University, worked out the calculations to confirm the hypothesis a year later.
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New York Times Company
