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  title info:
    title: Taking the Back off the Watch
    sub title: A Personal Memoir
  name:
    name part: Gold, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mitton, Simon.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 234 p. online resource.
  abstract: Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy throughout his career. Based on a full-length autobiography left behind by Thomas Gold, this book was edited by the astrophysicist and historian of science, Simon Mitton (University of Cambridge). The book is a retrospective on Gold’s remarkable life. He fled from Vienna in 1933, eventually settling in England and completing an engineering degree at Trinity College in Cambridge. During the war, he worked on naval radar research alongside Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi – which, in an unlikely chain of events, eventually led to his working with them on steady-state cosmology. In 1968, shortly after their discovery, he provided the explanation of pulsars as rotating neutron stars. In his final position at Cornell, he and his colleagues persuaded the US Defense Department to fund the conversion of the giant radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico into a superb instrument for radio astronomy. Gold’s interests covered physiology, astronomy, cosmology, geophysics, and engineering. Written in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science. .
  table of contents: Foreword by Freeman Dyson -- Introduction by Simon Mitton -- School Years in Troubled Times -- Wartime Student Days -- Wartime Work for the British Navy -- Return to Cambridge: The Citadel of Learning -- Appointment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory -- Move to America -- Move to Cornell -- The Pulsar Era -- NASA: The Love-Hate Relationship -- The origin of Petroleum on Earth -- Earthquakes.-Unfinished Business.
  note: by Thomas Gold ; edited by Simon Mitton.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mineral resources
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Mineral Resources
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 381
  identifier: 9783642275883
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27588-3
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