BornNapanee, Ontario, Canada, 18 March 1871
Died Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 19 September 1957
In 1948, Canadian geologist Reginald Daly proposed that the Moon was formed by a collision between the Earth and a planetary-mass body. By 1984, “giant impact” had become the leading theory for lunar origin.
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Baldwin, Ralph B. and Wilhelms, Don E. (1992). “Historical Review of a Long-overlooked Paper by R. A. Daly Concerning the Origin and Early History of the Moon.” Journal of Geophysical Research97, no. E1: 3837–3843.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Daly, Reginald Aldworth. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_329
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