Mordehai Milgrom - Definition and Overview

Mordehai Milgrom is a professor at the Weizmann Institute department of Condensed Matter Physics, located at 76100 Rehovot in Israel.

His current research interests include:

• Galaxy dynamics:
  • the dark-matter problem;
  • Modified Newtonian dynamics: As an alternative explanation to the dark matter and galaxies rotation curves problem, Milgrom suggested to modify Newton's Second Law for very small accelerations. His theory known as MOND.
  • cosmology.
• High-Energy astrophysics:
  • ultra-high-energy cosmic rays;
  • gamma-raybursters;
  • gamma- and x-ray sources.