antedating "black hole" - coined by Robert Dicke?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Noted here by Fred on 4/16/08...

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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> OED offers 1968.
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> 1964 Ann Ewing in _The Science News Letter_ (Jan. 18) 39: "Black Holes" in
> Space  The heavy densely packed dying stars that speckle space may help
> determine how matter behaves when enclosed in its own gravitational
> field....Space may be peppered with "black holes." This was suggested at the
> American Association for the Advancement of Physics meeting in Cleveland by
> astronomers and physicists who are experts on what are called degenerate
> stars....Such a star then forms a "black hole" in the universe.
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> 2009 Virginia Trimble in _Science News_ (Sept. 26) 30: 'Black hole'
> origins....Hong-Yee Chiu, who organized and chaired that [AAAS] session,
> remembers the phrase from the late Robert Dicke in about 1960-61.
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> JL
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