The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

Ferris, Timothy

ISBN 10: 068801836X / ISBN 13: 9780688018368

Editore: Harper Perennial, 2002

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• Titolo: The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 068801836X
• ISBN 13: 9780688018368
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: acceptable

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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.

Informazioni sull?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.