02798oam 2200517 450 991082051840332120190911112724.01-84816-908-6(OCoLC)843871713(MiFhGG)GVRL8RAU(EXLCZ)99267000000036180420130723h20132013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrBeating the odds the life and times of E.A. Milne /Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober PenroseLondon Imperial College Pressc2013London :Imperial College Press,[2013]�20131 online resource (xxvii, 282 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations, portraitsGale eBooksDescription based upon print version of record.1-84816-907-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations in the Footnotes; Contents; Chapter 1. A Foothold on the Ladder; Chapter 2. The Upheavals of War; Chapter 3. Adventures with Reflections; Chapter 4. The Trials of Trumpets; Chapter 5. Cambridge Rhapsody; Chapter 6. Riding on a Sunbeam; Chapter 7. New Horizons; Chapter 8. A Scientific Wilderness; Chapter 9. Cut and Thrust; Chapter 10. Family versus College; Chapter 11. Cosmic Inspiration; Chapter 12. Oxford's Enlightenment; Chapter 13. The Pendulum and the Atom; Chapter 14. LifelineChapter 15. Mathematics, Bombs and BureaucracyChapter 16. An Invitation; Chapter 17. A Race Unfinished; Epilogue; IndexE A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy - he believed two time scales operate in the universe.Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished his degree. In World War I he was invited to develop Horace Darwin's device for anti-aircraft gunnery and after the Armistice his prowess in ballistics took him straight to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. By the age of thirty he was a Manchester professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society. At OxfAstrophysicistsGreat BritainBiographyAstrophysicsCosmologyReligion and scienceAstrophysicistsAstrophysics.Cosmology.Religion and science.523.01092Smith Meg Weston1636488Penrose RogerMiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910820518403321Beating the odds3977798UNINA