William G. Tifft

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William G. Tifft is Emeritus Professor/Astronomer at the University of Arizona. His main interests are in galaxies, superclusters and what Tifft calls redshift problems (see Redshift quantization).^[1] He was influential in the development of the first redshift surveys [1] and was an early proponent of manned space astronomy, conducted at a proposed moon base for example.

He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University (1954), and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology (1958) where he wrote his dissertation on photoelectric photometry [2].

Tifft has proposed a speculative idea regarding the quantization of cosmological time to explain observations he says indicate redshift quantization. [3]

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