Astronomy

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon, : Helicon, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 520.904
• Soggetto topico: Astronomers; Astronomy; Astronomy - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: "" Hutchinson Trends in Science: Astronomy""; ""Preface""; "" Table of contents""; "" Overview: astronomy in the 20th century""; ""introduction""; ""tools of the astronomer""; ""radio astronomy""; ""other astronomies""; ""rise of planetary science""; ""Sun and the stars""; ""galaxies""; ""cosmology""; ""recent and forthcoming advances""; "" Chronology""; "" Biographical sketches""; ""Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921-)""; ""Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter (1893-1960)""; ""Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968)""; ""Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943-)""; ""life"" ; ""the discovery of pulsars""""Bok, Bart J(an) (1906-1983)""; ""Bondi, Hermann (1919-2005)""; ""Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973)""; ""Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916-2002)""; ""Burbidge, (Eleanor) Margaret (1919-)""; ""born Margaret Peachey""; ""Burbidge, Geoffrey (1925-)""; ""Cannon, Annie Jump (1863-1941)""; ""Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995)""; ""De Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri (1918-1995)""; ""Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997)""; ""Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)""; ""Fowler, William Alfred (1911-1995)""; ""nuclear synthesis in stars""; ""life"" ; ""calculating helium abundance""""Gamow, George (1904-1968)""; ""born Georgi Antonovich Gamow""; ""life""; ""radioactive decay""; ""hot Big Bang""; ""DNA""; ""Giacconi, Riccardo (1931-)""; ""Gold, Thomas (1920-)""; ""Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)""; ""Hawking, Stephen (William) (1942-)""; ""Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967)""; ""Hewish, Antony (1924-)""; ""Hey, James Stanley (1909-2000)""; ""Hoyle, Fred(erick) (1915-2001)""; ""Hubble, Edwin (Powell) (1889-1953)""; ""Hulst, van de, Hendrik Christoffel (1918-2000)""; ""Humason, Milton Lasell (1891-1972)"" ; ""Jansky, Karl Guthe (1905-1950)""""Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1906-1966)""; ""Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905-1973)""; ""Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868-1921)""; ""Lemaître, Georges Edouard (1894-1966)""; ""Lovell, (Alfred Charles) Bernard (1913-)""; ""Lowell, Percival (1855-1916)""; ""Lynden-Bell, Donald (1935-)""; ""Maury, Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira (1866-1952)""; ""Minkowski, Rudolph Leo (1895-1976)""; ""Moore, Patrick (Alfred Caldwell) (1923-)""; ""Neugebauer, Gerry (1932-)""; ""born Gerald Neugebauer""; ""Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900-1992)"" ; ""Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875-1969)""
• Sommario/riassunto: Overview of the development of astronomy in the 20th century.
• Altri titoli varianti: Astronomy; Trends in science
• Titolo autorizzato: Astronomy
• ISBN: 1-280-75862-7; 9786610758623
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826468203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Hutchinson trends in science.