The Red Limit - Brossura

Ferris, Timothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 068801836X ISBN 13: 9780688018368

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 1983

Riassunto

Hailed by critics as a classic of modern science and awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize, this is the tumultuous tale of groundbreaking discoveries by a group of scientists whose rivalries and emotions played as important a role as their intellectual brilliance. Reprint.

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L'autore

Timothy Ferris's works include Seeing in the Dark, The Mind's Sky (both New York Times best books of the year), and The Whole Shebang (listed by American Scientist as one of the one hundred most influential books of the twentieth century). A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former editor of Rolling Stone. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. A contributor to CNN and National Public Radio, Ferris has made three prime-time PBS television specials: The Creation of the Universe, Life Beyond Earth, and Seeing in the Dark. He lives in San Francisco.

Product Description

Book by Ferris Timothy

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 068801836X
• ISBN 13: 9780688018368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 368