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

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ISBN 10: 9048163390 ISBN 13: 9789048163397

Casa editrice: Springer, 2010

Riassunto

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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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

Contenuti

Foreword from Vice Chancellor Dr David Grant CBE. Introductory Remarks; G. Burbidge. I: Personal Reminiscences. Working with Fred; H. Bondi. Fred Hoyle and Naval Radar 1941 45; C. Domb. Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian Telescope; M. Burbidge. Fred Hoyle and Manchester; R.M. Davies. Meeting with a remarkable man; R. Meyers. II: Stellar Structure and Evolution. Fred's contribution to stellar evolution; L. Mestel. Stellar evolution; J. Faulkner. Some remarks on solar neutrinos; D.O. Gough. Novae as thermonuclear laboratories; D.D. Clayton. The Eddington mission; I. Roxburgh. Blach hole binary dynamics; S.J. Aarseth. III: Cosmology. Work with Fred on action at a distance; J.V. Narlikar. Gravity from spacetime thermodynamics; T. Padmanabhan. A statistical evaluation of anomalous redshift claims; W. Napier. Redshift periodicities, the galaxy-quasar connection; W.G. Tift. Research with Fred; H. Arp. The discovery of major new phenomenology in spiral discs and its theoretical meaning; D.F. Roscoe. The prehistory of the steady state universe; R. Temple. IV: Interstellar Matter. Fred Hoyle and interstellar matter; P.M. Solomon. Elevating the status of dust; C. Wikramasinghe. V: Comets. Giant comets and human culture; W. Napier. An exceptional cosmic influence and its bearing on the evolution of human culture as evident in the apparent early development of mathematics and astronomy; S.V.M. Clube. VI: Panspermia. Panspermia according to Hoyle; C. Wikramasinghe. A balloon experiment to detect microorganisms in outer space; J.V. Narlikar, et al. A microbiologist looks at panspermia; M. Wainwright.What Darwin missed; A.K. Campbell. Cosmic genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition; M.K. Wallis.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9048163390
• ISBN 13: 9789048163397
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Wickramasinghe N.C., Burbidge Geoffrey, Narlikar J.V.
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