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Zusatztext This is an outstanding book! suitable for the numerous leisure (or pleasure) historians in the astronomy community. Informationen zum Autor After graduation from the University of Copenhagen in physics and chemistry, and a period as a high school teacher, Helge Kragh became Associate Professor at Cornell University, Departments of History and Physics. Since 1990 he has held positions as Curator at the Steno Museum for Science and Medicine, Aarhus University, and as Professor of History of Science at the University of Oslo. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of History of Science and Technology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Kragh is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the International Academy for History of Science, the European Society for History of Science, the European Physical Society, and the European Academy of Science. Klappentext This book tells the fascinating history of cosmology using a series of fictitious interview transcripts with the field's leading scientists, including giants such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and George Gamow, to give the reader a lively and almost authentic impression of the problems that faced this early generation of cosmologists. Zusammenfassung This book tells the fascinating history of cosmology using a series of fictitious interview transcripts with the field's leading scientists, including giants such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and George Gamow, to give the reader a lively and "almost authentic" impression of the problems that faced this early generation of cosmologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Kristian Birkeland: from aurora to the universe 2: Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos 3: Karl Schwarzschild: astronomer and physicist 4: Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology 5: Albert Einstein's finite universe 6: Willem de Sitter and the expanding universe 7: George Lemaître's primeval atom 8: Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology 9: Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist 10: George Gamow: nuclear physics and the early universe 11: Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady state theory 12: Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers 13: Robert Dicke and the big bang ...
List of contents
- 1: Kristian Birkeland: from aurora to the universe
- 2: Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos
- 3: Karl Schwarzschild: astronomer and physicist
- 4: Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology
- 5: Albert Einstein's finite universe
- 6: Willem de Sitter and the expanding universe
- 7: George Lemaître's primeval atom
- 8: Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology
- 9: Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist
- 10: George Gamow: nuclear physics and the early universe
- 11: Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady state theory
- 12: Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers
- 13: Robert Dicke and the big bang
