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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Life of Stars
    sub title: The Controversial Inception and Emergence of the Theory of Stellar Structure
  name:
    name part: Shaviv, Giora.
    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: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 504 p. online resource.
  abstract: This beautifully illustrated book describes the birth and evolution of the theory of stellar structure through the vehement controversy between biology (as presented by Darwin) and physics (as presented by Kelvin) about the age of the Earth, which culminated with Rutherford suggesting radioactive dating. Shaviv analyzes critically many proclaimed scientific results, showing how and why they were wrong, and explains why it took decades to find the now accepted scientific answers - where there are such - and why there remains much more to be done before we can say we fully understand what happens up there in the heavens. The Life of the Stars provides fascinating reading for all those interested in the stars, in the history of astronomy and in what their story tells us about how science progresses. Moreover, it will bring readers up-to-date on current problems in astrophysics.
  table of contents: The Controversy about the Age of the Earth -- What Stellar Classification Tells Us -- The Dawn of a New Era -- Towards a Complete Theory of Stellar Structure -- From Chemistry to Dying Stars -- The Solution to the Stellar Energy Problem -- How the Low Mass Stars Perish -- The Life and Death of Massive Stars -- The Sun.
  note: by Giora Shaviv.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  classification: QB495-500.269
  classification: 520
  classification: 500.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642020889
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02088-9
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180514.0
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