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Fred Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contributions to Science 25–26 June 2002 Cardiff University, United Kingdom de N.C. Wickramasinghe

Fred Hoyle’s Universe: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating Fred Hoyle’s Extraordinary Contributions to Science 25–26 June 2002 Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Editat de N.C. Wickramasinghe, Geoffrey Burbidge, J.V. Narlikar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2003
This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781402014154
ISBN-10: 1402014155
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: IV, 328 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:2003
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands

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Cuprins

Fred Hoyle’s Universe.- I: Personal Reminiscence.- Working with Fred (1942–49).- Fred Hoyle and naval radar 1941–5.- Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian telescope.- Fred Hoyle and Manchester.- Meeting with a remarkable man: Sir Fred Hoyle Memorial Conference.- II: Stellar Structures and Evolution.- Fred’s contributions to stellar evolution.- Fred Hoyle, Red giants and beyond.- Some remarks on solar neutrinos.- Novae as thermonuclear laboratories.- The Eddington mission.- Black hole binary dynamics.- III: Cosmology.- Numerical coincidences and ‘Tuning’ in cosmology.- Working with Fred on action at a distance.- Gravity from spacetime thermodynamics.- A statistical evaluation of anomalous redshift claims.- Redshift periodicities, The galaxy-quasar connection.- Research with Fred.- The discovery of major new phenomenology in spiral discs and its theoretical meaning.- The Prehistory of the steady state theory.- IV: Interstellar Matter.- Interstellar matter and star formation.- Elevating the status of dust.- V: Comets.- Giant comets and human culture.- An exceptional cosmic influence and its bearing on the evolution of human culture as evident in the apparent early development of mathematics and astronomy.- VI: Panspermia.- Panspermia according to Hoyle.- Astronomy or biology?.- A balloon experiment to detect microorganisms in the outer space.- A microbiologist looks at Panspermia.- What Darwin missed.- Cosmic genes in the Cretaceous-tertiary transition.- Remembering Fred Hoyle.

Recenzii

Fred Hoyle’s Universe, edited by C. Wickramasinghe, G. Burbridge and J. Narlikar. ISBN 1-4020-1415-5                                                                                          ‘This book is a joy to have. It is a marvelous tribute to the life and achievements of Fred Hoyle, written by those who knew him first hand, wether as wartime colleagues, research students, or employees.’ (Simon Mitton)  A&G vol. 45, 2004