Biography
Arp was born March 21, 1927, in New York City. He has been married three times, has four daughters and four grandchildren. His bachelor's degree was awarded by Harvard (1949), and his Ph.D. by Caltech (1953). Afterward he became a Fellow of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1953, performing research at the Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Arp became a Research Assistant at Indiana University in 1955, and then in 1957 became a staff member at Palomar Observatory, where he worked for 29 years. In 1983 he joined the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany.
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