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Holder, Rodney D |
Georges Lema??tre: Life, Science and Legacy |
I08349 |
2012 |
eBook |
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Gold, Thomas |
Taking the Back off the Watch |
I07419 |
2012 |
eBook |
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Southwood, David |
Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey???s Research |
I06541 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Mitton, Simon |
Conflict in the cosmos : Fred Hoyle's life in science |
020475 |
2005 |
Book |
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Simon Mitton |
Exploring the galaxies |
006665 |
1976 |
Book |
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Jacqueline Mitton |
Discovering astronomy |
005214 |
1982 |
Book |
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| Title | Georges Lema??tre: Life, Science and Legacy |
| Author(s) | Holder, Rodney D;Mitton, Simon |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. |
| Description | XII, 201 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The year 2011 marked the 80th anniversary of Georges Lema??tre???s primeval atom model of the universe, forerunner of the modern day Big Bang theory. Prompted by this momentous anniversary the Royal Astronomical Society decided to publish a volume of essays on the life, work and faith of this great cosmologist, who was also a Roman Catholic priest. The papers presented in this book examine in detail the historical, cosmological, philosophical and theological issues surrounding the development of the Big Bang theory from its beginnings in the pioneering work of Lema??tre through to the modern day. This book offers the best account in English of Lema??tre???s life and work. It will be appreciated by professionals and graduate students interested in the history of cosmology |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642322549 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. PHYSICS
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| Title | Taking the Back off the Watch : A Personal Memoir |
| Author(s) | Gold, Thomas;Mitton, Simon |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. |
| Description | XVIII, 234 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy throughout his career. Based on a full-length autobiography left behind by Thomas Gold, this book was edited by the astrophysicist and historian of science, Simon Mitton (University of Cambridge). The book is a retrospective on Gold???s remarkable life. He fled from Vienna in 1933, eventually settling in England and completing an engineering degree at Trinity College in Cambridge. During the war, he worked on naval radar research alongside Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi ??? which, in an unlikely chain of events, eventually led to his working with them on steady-state cosmology. In 1968, shortly after their discovery, he provided the explanation of pulsars as rotating neutron stars. In his final position at Cornell, he and his colleagues persuaded the US Defense Department to fund the conversion of the giant radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico into a superb instrument for radio astronomy. Gold???s interests covered physiology, astronomy, cosmology, geophysics, and engineering. Written in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science. ?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642275883 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. Mineral resources
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| Title | Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey???s Research |
| Author(s) | Southwood, David;Cowley FRS, Stanley W. H;Mitton, Simon |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | XIII, 271 p. 105 illus., 56 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book makes good background reading for much of modern magnetospheric physics. Its origin was a Festspiel for Professor Jim Dungey, former professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 30 January 2013. Remarkably, although he retired 30 years ago, his pioneering and, often, maverick work in the 50???s through to the 70???s on solar terrestrial physics is probably more widely appreciated today than when he retired. Dungey was a theoretical plasma physicist. The book covers how his reconnection model of the magnetosphere evolved to become the standard model of solar-terrestrial coupling. Dungey???s open magnetosphere model now underpins a holistic picture explaining not only the magnetic and plasma structure of the magnetosphere, but also its dynamics which can be monitored in real time. The book also shows how modern day simulation of solar terrestrial coupling can reproduce the real time evolution of the solar terrestrial system in ways undreamt of in 1961 when Dungey???s epoch-making paper was published. Further contributions on current Earth magnetosphere research and space plasma physics included in this book show how Dungey???s basic ideas have remained explanative 50 years on. But the Festspiel also introduced some advances that possibly Dungey had not foreseen. One of the contributions presented in this book is on the variety of magnetospheres of the solar system which have been seen directly during the space age, discussing the variations in spatial scale and reconnection time scale and comparing them in respect of Earth, Mercury, the giant planets as well as Ganymede |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319183596 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GEOPHYSICS
4. Geophysics/Geodesy
5. PLASMA (IONIZED GASES)
6. PLASMA PHYSICS
7. SPACE SCIENCES
8. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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