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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar revised the models of stellar dynamics first outlined by who?
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Jan Oort
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar revised the models of stellar dynamics first outlined by Jan Oort. Oort was a Dutch astronomer who was one of the first to study the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy. He proposed that the galaxy is made up of a disk of stars, with a central bulge and a halo of stars. He also developed models to explain the motion of stars in the galaxy.
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