Taking the Back off the Watch
A Personal Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
Here is an account of the life and work of Thomas Gold, one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the 20th century. Based on Gold's autobiography, this book is edited by the Cambridge astrophysicist and science historian Simon Mitton.
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Here is an account of the life and work of Thomas Gold, one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the 20th century. Based on Gold's autobiography, this book is edited by the Cambridge astrophysicist and science historian Simon Mitton.
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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 theconversion 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in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Taking the Back off the Watch “
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Thomas Gold
- 2012, XVIII, 234 Seiten, Masse: 16,4 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Simon Mitton
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3642275877
- ISBN-13: 9783642275876
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Gold discusses cosmology in three relatively brief sections of Taking the Back Off the Watch: A Personal Memoir. ... Taking the Back Off the Watch is likely to prove a useful source for historians of science of the post-World War II period." (Robert W. Smith, ISIS, Vol. 106 (2), June, 2015)
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