Fred Hoyle's Universe
Subtitle: Proceedings of a Conference Celebrating Fred Hoyle's Extraordinary Contributions to Science 25-26 June 2002 Cardiff University, United Kingdom
By: edited by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jayant Narlikar
Contributors: Burbidge, Geoffrey; Narlikar, Jayant
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789048163397; 9789401716055
Subjects: Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of a Conference celebrating Fred Hoyle's Extraordinary Contribution to Science, 25-26 June 2002, Cardiff University, UK
Description: This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.
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Table of contents: title: From the Contents: Foreword from Vice Chancellor Dr David Grant CBE; title: Introductory Remarks; title: I: Personal Reminiscences; title: II: Stellar Structure and Evolution; title: III: Cosmology; title: IV: Interstellar Matter; title: V: Comets; title: VI: Panspermia.