Hutchinson Trends in Science : Astronomy.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon :
Helicon Publishing,
2006.
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| ISBN: | 9781859865040 1859865046 |
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Table of Contents:
- "" Hutchinson Trends in Science: Astronomy""; ""Preface""; "" Table of contents""; "" Overview: astronomy in the 20th century""; ""introduction""; ""tools of the astronomer""; ""radio astronomy""; ""other astronomies""; ""rise of planetary science""; ""Sun and the stars""; ""galaxies""; ""cosmology""; ""recent and forthcoming advances""; "" Chronology""; "" Biographical sketches""; ""Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921â€?Â)""; ""Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter (1893â€?1960)""; ""Babcock, Harold Delos (1882â€?1968)""; ""Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943â€?Â)""; ""life""
- ""The discovery of pulsars""""Bok, Bart J(an) (1906â€?1983)""; ""Bondi, Hermann (1919â€?2005)""; ""Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898â€?1973)""; ""Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916â€?2002)""; ""Burbidge, (Eleanor) Margaret (1919â€?Â)""; ""born Margaret Peachey""; ""Burbidge, Geoffrey (1925â€?Â)""; ""Cannon, Annie Jump (1863â€?1941)""; ""Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910â€?1995)""; ""De Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri (1918â€?1995)""; ""Dicke, Robert Henry (1916â€?1997)""; ""Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882â€?1944)""; ""Fowler, William Alfred (1911â€?1995)""; ""nuclear synthesis in stars""; ""life""
- ""Calculating helium abundance""""Gamow, George (1904â€?1968)""; ""born Georgi Antonovich Gamow""; ""life""; ""radioactive decay""; ""hot Big Bang""; ""DNA""; ""Giacconi, Riccardo (1931â€?Â)""; ""Gold, Thomas (1920â€?Â)""; ""Hale, George Ellery (1868â€?1938)""; ""Hawking, Stephen (William) (1942â€?Â)""; ""Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873â€?1967)""; ""Hewish, Antony (1924â€?Â)""; ""Hey, James Stanley (1909â€?2000)""; ""Hoyle, Fred(erick) (1915â€?2001)""; ""Hubble, Edwin (Powell) (1889â€?1953)""; ""Hulst, van de, Hendrik Christoffel (1918â€?2000)""; ""Humason, Milton Lasell (1891â€?1972)""
- ""Jansky, Karl Guthe (1905â€?1950)""""Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1906â€?1966)""; ""Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905â€?1973)""; ""Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868â€?1921)""; ""Lemaître, Georges Edouard (1894â€?1966)""; ""Lovell, (Alfred Charles) Bernard (1913â€?Â)""; ""Lowell, Percival (1855â€?1916)""; ""Lynden-Bell, Donald (1935â€?Â)""; ""Maury, Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira (1866â€?1952)""; ""Minkowski, Rudolph Leo (1895â€?1976)""; ""Moore, Patrick (Alfred Caldwell) (1923â€?Â)""; ""Neugebauer, Gerry (1932â€?Â)""; ""born Gerald Neugebauer""; ""Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900â€?1992)""
- ""Ã?pik, Ernst Julius (1893â€?1985)""""Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (1900â€?1979)""; ""born Cecilia Payne""; ""Penrose, Roger (1931â€?Â)""; ""life""; ""black holes""; ""a new model of the universe""; ""books""; ""Penzias, Arno Allan (1933â€?Â)""; ""life""; ""the discovery of background radiation""; ""later work""; ""Reber, Grote (1911â€?2002)""; ""Russell, Henry Norris (1877â€?1957)""; ""Ryle, Martin (1918â€?1984)""; ""Sagan, Carl Edward (1934â€?1996)""; ""Sandage, Allan Rex (1926â€?Â)""; ""Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911â€?1960)""; ""Shapley, Harlow (1885â€?1972)""