Getting the back off the watch and other episodes in the life of a scientist
By: Thomas Gold.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Gold, Thomas; Astrophysicists -- United States -- Biography; Research
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: School years in troubled times; title: Wartime student days; title: Return to Cambridge : the citadel of learning; title: Appointment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory; title: Move to America; title: Move to Cornell; title: The pulsar era; title: NASA : the love-hate relationship; title: Origin of petroleum on Earth; title: Earthquakes; title: Unfinished business.