A journey with Fred Hoyle : the search for cosmic life /
Wickramasinghe, N. C.(Nalin Chandra),1939-
Wickramasinghe, Kamala.
Hackensack, N.J. ; London : World Scientific,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
Origins: prelude to the journey -- Cambridge and a first meeting -- A hike in the lake district -- Betwixt the stars -- The route to carbon dust -- A theory takes shape -- The Institute of Astronomy: the vintage years -- Winds of change -- The Cardiff era -- The search for cosmic life -- Life from comets and pathogens from space -- First signs of life -- Bacterial dust predictions verified -- Life on the planets -- Evolution from space -- Theories of trial -- A fossil controversy -- Comet Halley and its legacy -- Alternative cosmologies -- The last decade.
Wickramasinghe, N. C. (Nalin Chandra), 1939-
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001.
Astronomers
Life
Cosmic dust.