Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cosmology's Century, Principles of Physical Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics (all Princeton). He is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University.

"James Peebles, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics"

• *Frontmatter, pg. i*Introduction, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950, pg. 1*II. The Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe, pg. 31*III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale, pg. 43*IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe, pg. 56*V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis, pg. 121*VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models, pg. 159*VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios, pg. 190*VIII. Primeval Helium, pg. 240*Appendix. Notation, Conventions and Units, pg. 278

Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cosmology's Century, Principles of Physical Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics (all Princeton). He is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University.

"James Peebles, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics"

• *Frontmatter, pg. i*Introduction, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950, pg. 1*II. The Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe, pg. 31*III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale, pg. 43*IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe, pg. 56*V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis, pg. 121*VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models, pg. 159*VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios, pg. 190*VIII. Primeval Helium, pg. 240*Appendix. Notation, Conventions and Units, pg. 278

Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cosmology's Century, Principles of Physical Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics (all Princeton). He is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University.

"James Peebles, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics"

• *Frontmatter, pg. i*Introduction, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*I. Golden Moments in Cosmology 1912-1950, pg. 1*II. The Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Universe, pg. 31*III. Hubble's Constant and the Cosmic Time Scale, pg. 43*IV. The Mean Mass Density of the Universe, pg. 56*V. The Microwave Background and the Primeval Fireball Hypothesis, pg. 121*VI. A Child's Garden of Cosmological Models, pg. 159*VII. History of the Universe - Scenarios, pg. 190*VIII. Primeval Helium, pg. 240*Appendix. Notation, Conventions and Units, pg. 278