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Woodruff T. Sullivan, III - Cosmic Noise, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Cosmic Noise

A History of Early Radio Astronomy

Av Woodruff T. Sullivan, III

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Beskrivning
Providing a definitive history of the formative years of radio astronomy, this book is invaluable for historians of science, scientists and engineers. The whole of worldwide radio and radar astronomy is covered, beginning with the discoveries by Jansky and Reber of cosmic noise before World War II, through the wartime detections of solar noise, the discovery of radio stars, lunar and meteor radar experiments, the detection of the hydrogen spectral line, to the discoveries of Hey, Ryle, Lovell and Pawsey in the decade following the war, revealing an entirely different sky from that of visual astronomy. Using contemporary literature, correspondence and photographs, the book tells the story of the people who shaped the intellectual, technical, and social aspects of the field now known as radio astronomy. The book features quotes from over a hundred interviews with pioneering radio astronomers, giving fascinating insights into the development of radio astronomy. Woodruff T. Sullivan III has been awarded the 2012 Leroy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-11-05
  • Mått: 183 x 253 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 1 380 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 574
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521765244
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Woodruff T. Sullivan III is Professor of Astronomy and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. Trained as a radio astronomer, his research has included radio studies of the interstellar medium in our own and other galaxies, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and astrobiology.

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'Sullivan's work is a product of 25 years in the history of science and only slightly longer in the realm of professional radio astronomers … [Encompasses] essentially all major characters and incidents of early radio astronomy … Cosmic Noise covers the multiple strands that amorphously connect the late nineteenth-century discovery of radio waves to 1952/53 radio astronomy … a commendable job of assembling people, their memories, their publications, their instruments, and their institutions to give a solid overview of the early history of a diverse field.' Metascience

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