Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose
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Smith Meg Weston
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| Titolo: |
Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Imperial College Press, c2013 |
| London : , : Imperial College Press, , [2013] | |
| �2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 282 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Disciplina: | 523.01092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Astrophysicists - Great Britain |
| Astrophysics | |
| Cosmology | |
| Religion and science | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PenroseRoger |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Chapter 15. Mathematics, Bombs and BureaucracyChapter 16. An Invitation; Chapter 17. A Race Unfinished; Epilogue; Index | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beating the odds |
| ISBN: | 1-84816-908-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786965603321 |
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