Cosmic Strings, and their inprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, on the cover of this 1984 issue of Nature.

Featuring a paper by Nick Kaiser and Albert Stebbins
https://nature.com/articles/310391a0

... and a News & Views article by Craig Hogan
https://www.nature.com/articles/310365a0

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A great obituary for my cousin Nick.

"Between 1984 and 1992 the cosmologist Nick Kaiser, who has died of heart failure aged 68, created many of the ideas now used by astronomers to map the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe. His analysis of the clustering of galaxies and the distortion of galaxy shapes by gravitational light deflection are at the heart of the leading modern cosmological experiments, particularly the recently launched Euclid satellite."

Full obituary via link below.

#Cosmology #NickKaiser #Obituary #DarkMatter #Astronomy

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/10/nick-kaiser-obituary

Nick Kaiser obituary

Cosmologist who explored the clustering of galaxies as a way of establishing the distribution of dark matter in the universe

The Guardian