Astronomers and cosmologists
Edition: First edition.
Series: Great scientists; Great scientists (Cavendish Square Publishing LLC)
Publisher: Cavendish Square
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781627125482; 9781627125499
Subjects: Astronomers; Biography; Juvenile literature; Cosmologists; Astronomy; Cosmology; Juvenile; Physicists; Astronomes; Biographies; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Astronomie
Description: Looks at the lives and careers of over fifty astronomers and cosmologists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alhazen; title: Anaximander; title: Aristarchus of Samos; title: Walter Baade; title: Edward Emerson Barnard; title: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell; title: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel; title: Tycho Brahe; title: E. Margaret Burbidge; title: Annie Jump Cannon; title: George R. Carruthers; title: Gian Domenico Cassini; title: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; title: Nicolaus Copernicus; title: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington; title: Sandra Faber; title: Hippolyte Fizeau; title: Leon Foucault; title: Herbert Friedman; title: Galileo; title: Margaret Geller; title: Alan H. Guth; title: George Ellery Hale; title: Edmond Halley; title: Stephen Hawking; title: Sir John Herschel; title: Sir Willeim Herschel; title: Ejnar Hertzsprung; title: ANtony Hewish; title: Sir Fred Hoyle; title: Edwin Powell Hubble; title: Sir William Hugins; title: Christiaan Huygens; title: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn; title: Johannes Kepler; title: Gerard Peter Kuiper; title: Henrietta Swan Lewvitt; title: Georges Lemaitre; title: Jane X. Luu; title: Antonia Maury; title: Albert Abraham Michelson; title: Maria Mitchell; title: Wilhelm Olbers; title: Jan Hendrik Oort; title: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; title: Ptolemy; title: Vera C. Rubin; title: Henry Norris Russell; title: Carl Sagan; title: Allan Rex SAndage; title: Maarten Schmidt; title: Harlow Shapley; title: Vesto Melvin Slipher; title: Fritz Zwicky.