The State of the Universe

Informationen zum Autor Pedro Ferreira is a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Tutor and Fellow of Oriel College. He studied physics at the Technical University of Lisbon and obtained a doctorate from Imperial College, London in 1995. He has been a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, at CERN in Geneva and was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2000. He has given seminars and lecture courses at more than fifty institutions and has published over eighty scientific papers, conference proceedings and popular articles. His work focuses on the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang and the physical principles of the beginning of the Universe. He has a keen interest in education in Africa, teaching at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, and has hosted or collaborated with a number of artists on the interface between art and science. Klappentext A masterly overview of the development of cosmological thinking from the Greeks, via Newton and Einstein, to the present day.A masterly overview of the development of cosmological thinking from the Greeks, via Newton and Einstein, to the present day. Zusammenfassung A masterly overview of the development of cosmological thinking from the Greeks, via Newton and Einstein, to the present day.

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• Authors: Pedro Ferreira, Pedro G Ferreira, Pedro G. Ferreira, Ferreira Pedro
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.08.2007
• EAN: 9780753822562
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2256-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, SCIENCE / Space Science / General