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1 Chandra Wickramasinghe Where did we come from?: Life of an Astrobiologist 025950 2015 Book  
2 Chandra Wickramasinghe Search for our cosmic ancestry 025956 2015 Book  
3 Janaki Wickramasinghe Comets and the origin of life 022788 2010 Book  
4 Fred Hoyle Our place in the cosmos: Unfinished revolution 012320 1993 Book  
5 Fred Hoyle Cosmic life-force 000514 1988 Book  
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TitleWhere did we come from?: Life of an Astrobiologist
Author(s)Chandra Wickramasinghe;Kamala Wickramasinghe (ed.)
PublicationNew Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2015.
Descriptionxi, 236p.
Abstract NoteThe life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes the author's scientific work over the past 50 years, the ground-breaking discoveries he had made, the controversies generated in the scientific community, and the gradual acceptance of his discoveries. Written in lucid non-technical language it captures the essence of the author's research at Cambridge, his lifelong collaborations with the legendary astronomer of the 20th century, Sir Fred Hoyle, the birth of the subject of astrobiology which they arguably "invented" in 1980, and his continuing ground-breaking research carried out while he was a Professor at Cardiff and later at Buckingham. The book traces the various influences that guided the author through his career, including that of his father who was a Cambridge Wrangler, and the profound influence of Buddhism in his early life.
ISBN,Price 9789814641395 : US $34.00(PB)
Classification92:524.8-88
Keyword(s)1. BIOGRAPHY - ASTROBIOLOGIST 2. BIOGRAPHY - CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - WORLD SCIENTIFIC 5. WICKRAMASINGHE, CHANDRA - BIOGRAPHY
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TitleSearch for our cosmic ancestry
Author(s)Chandra Wickramasinghe
PublicationNew Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2015.
Descriptionxx, 196p.
Abstract NoteThe idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years, thus making panspermia and the transfer of microbial life between such planets an inevitable fact. The book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe theory of cometary panspermia in a manner accessible to a wide general readership.
ISBN,Price9789814616966 : US $38.00(PB)
Classification524.8-88
Keyword(s)1. ASTROBIOLOGY 2. COMETARY PANSPERMIA 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - WORLD SCIENTIFIC 5. EXOBIOLOGY 6. EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE 7. PANSPERNIA
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TitleComets and the origin of life
Author(s)Janaki Wickramasinghe;Chandra Wickramasinghe;William Napier
PublicationNew Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
Descriptionix, 221p.
ISBN,Price9789812566355 : US $55.00(HB)
Classification523.64:524.8-88
Keyword(s)1. ASTROBIOLOGY 2. COMETS 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - WORLD SCIENTIFIC 5. ORIGIN OF LIFE
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TitleOur place in the cosmos: Unfinished revolution
Author(s)Fred Hoyle;Chandra Wickramasinghe
PublicationLondon, J M Dent, 1993.
Descriptionviii, 190pp.
ISBN,Price0-460-86084-4
Classification524.8-88
Keyword(s)ORIGIN OF LIFE
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TitleCosmic life-force
Author(s)Fred Hoyle;Chandra Wickramasinghe
PublicationLondon, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1988.
Description151p.
Classification524.8-88
Keyword(s)COSMOLOGY
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