Halton C. Arp, a provocative son of American astronomy whose dogged insistence that astronomers had misread the distances to quasars cast doubt on the Big Bang theory of the universe and led to his exile from his peers and the telescopes he loved, died on Dec. 28 in Munich. He was 86.
The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter Kristana Arp, who said he also had Parkinson’s disease .... http://www.nytimes.com
