A journey with Fred Hoyle : the search for cosmic life /

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"This book traces the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th-century science. A research programme which was started in 1962 on the carbonaceous nature of interstellar dust leads, over the next two decades, to developments that are continued in both...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939-
Otros Autores: Wickramasinghe, Kamala
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2005.
Temas:
Wickramasinghe, Chandra, > 1939-
Hoyle, Fred, > 1915-2001.
Astronomers > Biography.
Life > Origin.
Cosmic dust.
Astronomes > Biographies.
Vie > Origines.
Poussière cosmique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Astronomers.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins: prelude to the journey
  • Cambridge and a first meeting
  • A hike in the lake district
  • Betwixt the stars
  • The route to carbon dust
  • A theory takes shape
  • The Institute of Astronomy: the vintage years
  • Winds of change
  • The Cardiff era
  • The search for cosmic life
  • Life from comets and pathogens from space
  • First signs of life
  • Bacterial dust predictions verified
  • Life on the planets
  • Evolution from space
  • Theories of trial
  • A fossil controversy
  • Comet Halley and its legacy
  • Alternative cosmologies
  • The last decade.

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