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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Smith Meg Weston"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London, : Imperial College Press, c2013"]
[{"$nulls":4},"London : , : Imperial College Press, , [2013]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"�2013"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-84816-908-6"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xxvii, 282 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Gale eBooks"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"523.01092"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Astrophysicists - Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Astrophysics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Cosmology"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Religion and science"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations in the Footnotes; Contents; Chapter 1. A Foothold on the Ladder; Chapter 2. The Upheavals of War; Chapter 3. Adventures with Reflections; Chapter 4. The Trials of Trumpets; Chapter 5. Cambridge Rhapsody; Chapter 6. Riding on a Sunbeam; Chapter 7. New Horizons; Chapter 8. A Scientific Wilderness; Chapter 9. Cut and Thrust; Chapter 10. Family versus College; Chapter 11. Cosmic Inspiration; Chapter 12. Oxford's Enlightenment; Chapter 13. The Pendulum and the Atom; Chapter 14. Lifeline"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Chapter 15. Mathematics, Bombs and BureaucracyChapter 16. An Invitation; Chapter 17. A Race Unfinished; Epilogue; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","E 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 Oxf"]