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Zwicky
“A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time between picking fights with his colleagues and discovering amazing things about our universe.”—Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of his time. He predicted the existence of neutron stars, and his research pointed the way toward the discovery of pulsars and black holes. He was the first to conceive of the existence of dark matter, the first to make a detailed ca...
Fritz Zwicky
This English edition of the biography of the astronomer Fritz Zwicky highlights his fundamental research and discoveries including supernovae, dark matter, clusters of galaxies, neutron stars, gravitational lenses and also it recognises his significant contribution to research in astronomy and astrophysics. The volume presents a fascinating account of the life and work of this great twentieth century Swiss scientist and will appeal to a wide readership.
White Dwarfs
When the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union asked me, in 1968, to organize a Symposium on White Dwarfs it became evident that members of at least four Commissions of the IAU should participate, and that the most oppor tune place, and time to hold such a Symposium would be somewhere in the British Isles and just preceding the Fourteenth General Assembly at Brighton in August, 1970. After a preliminary correspondence with Dr. D. W. N. Stibbs it was decided to accept his invitation to hold the Symposium at St. Andrews University, Scotland, while the dates 11-13 August 1970 were selected. I am sure I speak for all the partici pants of the Symposium when I express our dee...
Far Infrared Supplement
The catalog contains about 210,000 observations of roughly 20,000 individual sources, and supporting appendices. The literature search is complete for years 1965 through 1990.
Catalogue of Radial Velocities of Galaxies
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
