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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939-
Autres auteurs: Wickramasinghe, Kamala
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2005.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.