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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cosmic Microwave Background
    sub title: How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe
  name:
    name part: Evans, Rhodri.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 204 p. 94 illus., 64 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn’s Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow’s early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its subsequent discovery by Penzias and Wilson, to modern day satellite-lead CMB research. Research results from the ground-based experiments DASI, BOOMERANG, and satellite missions COBE, WMAP and Planck are explained and interpreted to show how our current picture of the universe was arrived at, and the author looks at the future of CMB research and what we still need to learn. This account is enlivened by Dr Rhodri Evans' personal connections to the characters and places in the story.
  table of contents: From Kapteyn to Hubble -- George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman -- Penzias and Wilson and Dicke et al -- COBE -- DASI and BOOMERANG and other ground-based experiments -- WMAP -- Planck -- The Future.
  note: by Rhodri Evans.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astronomers' Universe
  identifier: 9783319099286
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09928-6
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    record creation date: 141204
    record change date: 20151030051545.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-09928-6