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Who proposed the Protoplanet Hypothesis in 1951 to explain the formation of the solar system?

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1Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
2Gerard Kuiper✓
3Otto Schmidt
4Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Gerard Kuiper

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