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Genre/Form: | biografie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helge Kragh; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 9780198722892 0198722893 |
OCLC Number: | 958205967 |
Notes: | Na s. red.: Impression: 1. |
Description: | XIV, [1], 285 s. : il. ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Kristian Birkeland: from aurora to the universe ; 2. Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos ; 3. Karl Schwarzschild: astronomer and physicist ; 4. Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology ; 5. Albert Einstein's finite universe ; 6. Willem de Sitter and the expanding universe ; 7. George Lemaitre's primeval atom ; 8. Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology ; 9. Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist ; 10. George Gamow: nuclear physics and the early universe ; 11. Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady state theory ; 12. Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers ; 13. Robert Dicke and the big bang |
Responsibility: | Helge Kragh. |
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This interesting work would be a useful addition to college libraries. Recommended. * CHOICE * [A]n enthralling journey not only into fantastic cosmic mysteries but also into the human mind. * Mario Livio, Journal of the History of Astronomy * Helge Kragh tells us the history of twentieth-century cosmology in a most lively and accessible form. Through his ingenious recourse to fictional interviews, he succeeds in conveying both the scientific stakes and the human complexity of one of the greatest adventures of mankind. * Olivier Darrigol, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique * An ambitious and highly engaging book that is also a very major contribution to the history of modern cosmology. * Robert Smith, University of Alberta * A rich and highly imaginative narrative that uses fictional interviews as the platform for the story, which has a fine historiographical style and is presented with flair. This is an absorbing and different approach to the history of cosmology. * Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge * This is an outstanding book, suitable for the numerous leisure (or pleasure) historians in the astronomy community. * Simon Mitton, The Observatory * Read more...

