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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 theconversion 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in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science.
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 theconversion 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in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science.
Enthralling life story of one of the most remarkable astrophysicists of the second half of the twentieth century who explained pulsars as rotating neutron stars
With intriguing anecdotes revealing Gold's scientific curiosity and deep understanding of physics
Carefully edited by the author of the biography of Sir Fred Hoyle
With a Foreword by Freeman Dyson
Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Illustrated with photographs, many never previously published
Includes supplementary material: [...]
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Physik, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Reihe: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
Inhalt: |
xviii
234 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9783642432460 |
ISBN-10: | 3642432468 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Gold, Thomas |
Redaktion: | Mitton, Simon |
Herausgeber: | Simon Mitton |
Hersteller: |
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Springer Berlin Heidelberg Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de |
Maße: | 235 x 155 x 14 mm |
Von/Mit: | Thomas Gold |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.06.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,388 kg |
Enthralling life story of one of the most remarkable astrophysicists of the second half of the twentieth century who explained pulsars as rotating neutron stars
With intriguing anecdotes revealing Gold's scientific curiosity and deep understanding of physics
Carefully edited by the author of the biography of Sir Fred Hoyle
With a Foreword by Freeman Dyson
Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Illustrated with photographs, many never previously published
Includes supplementary material: [...]
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Physik, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Reihe: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
Inhalt: |
xviii
234 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9783642432460 |
ISBN-10: | 3642432468 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Gold, Thomas |
Redaktion: | Mitton, Simon |
Herausgeber: | Simon Mitton |
Hersteller: |
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Springer Berlin Heidelberg Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de |
Maße: | 235 x 155 x 14 mm |
Von/Mit: | Thomas Gold |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.06.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,388 kg |