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Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose



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Autore: Smith Meg Weston Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84816-908-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786965603321
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