The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Orchiston, Wayne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 334
• Θέματα: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

This unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ‘Woodfest’ conference attracted some of the world’s leading astrobiologists and historians of astronomy, so it is no surprise this book provides a collection of key papers and re...

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• Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective
• Grote Reber (1911–2002)
• Dr Elizabeth Alexander: First Female Radio Astronomer
• Radio Astronomy in Holland Before 1960
• Jodrell Bank and the Meteor Velocity Controversy
• The Radiophysics Field Stations and the Early Development of Radio Astronomy
• Dark Matter and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
• The Discovery of Sgr A*
• Radio Astronomy, Whatever that May be
• Telescopes Lofted to Space
• The History of Space Astronomy
• SAO During the Whipple Years
• The Transits of Venus and New Technologies
• And the Remaining 22 Photons
• Gn?monik? Techn?
• Light Work.