Cosmology, fusion & other matters
Subtitle: George Gamow memorial volume.
By: Edited by Frederick Reines.
Contributors: Gamow, George, 1904-1968.; Reines, Frederick, 1918- ed.
Publisher: Colorado Associated University Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [Boulder]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Gamow, George, 1904-1968; Nuclear physics; Cosmology
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: F. Reines. Introduction and preface.; title: Alpher, R. A. and Herman, R. Reflections on "big bang" cosmology.; title: Hoyle, F. and Narlikar, J. V. Conformal invariance in physics and cosmology.; title: Penzias, A. A. Cosmology and microwave astronomy.; title: Wataghin, G. On a model of the expanding universe.; title: Dirac, P. A. M. The variability of the gravitational constant.; title: Teller, E. Are the constants constant?; title: Fowler, W. A. New observations and old nucleocosmochronologies.; title: Shapiro, M. M., Silberberg, R., and Tsao, C. H. Diffusion of cosmic rays and their source composition.; title: Cowan, C. L. and Reines, R. Neutrino physics; title: prospects.; title: Kavanagh, R. W. Reaction rates in the proton-proton chain.; title: Critchfield, C. L. Analytic forms of the thermonuclear function.; title: Tuck, J. L. World energy reserves and some speculations on the future of nuclear fusion energy.; title: Longmire, C. L. Heating of charged particles by electric waves.; title: Yourgrau, W. and van der Merwe, A. Entropy (positive and negative), information and statistical thermodynamics.; title: Ulam, S. M. Gamow; title: and mathematics.; title: Delbrück, M. Out of this world.; title: Rosenfeld, L. Nuclear reminiscences.; title: Shapiro, M. M. George Gamow; title: an appreciation.; title: Alpher, R. A. and Herman, R. Memories of Gamow.