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    Masters of the universe : conversations with cosmologists of the past / Helge Kragh, Aarhus University.

    By: Kragh, Helge, 1944- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9780198722892Subject(s): Cosmology -- History | Astronomers | Astronomers | Cosmology | Kosmologie | Astronomy -- HistoryGenre/Form: History. | Fiction.DDC classification: 523.109 LOC classification: QB981 | .K736 2015
    Contents:
    Kristian Birkeland: From Aurora to the Universe -- Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos -- Kark Schwarzschild: Astronomer and physicist -- Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology -- Albert Einstein's finite Universe -- Willem de Sitter and the expanding Universe -- Georges Lemaître's primeval atom -- Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology -- Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist -- George Gamow: Nuclear physics and the early Universe -- Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady-state theory -- Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers -- Robert Dicke and the Big Bang -- AIP interviews.
    Summary: " ... Based on a series of interviews that a fictional person conducted with leading astronomers between 1913 and 1965 ... Although the interviews are purely fictional, a product of the author's imagination, they could have taken place in just the way that is described. They are solidly based on historical facts and, moreover, supplemented with careful annotations and references to the literature"--Dustjacket.
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    " ... Based on a series of interviews that a fictional person conducted with leading astronomers between 1913 and 1965 ... Although the interviews are purely fictional, a product of the author's imagination, they could have taken place in just the way that is described. They are solidly based on historical facts and, moreover, supplemented with careful annotations and references to the literature"--Dustjacket.

    Kristian Birkeland: From Aurora to the Universe -- Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos -- Kark Schwarzschild: Astronomer and physicist -- Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology -- Albert Einstein's finite Universe -- Willem de Sitter and the expanding Universe -- Georges Lemaître's primeval atom -- Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology -- Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist -- George Gamow: Nuclear physics and the early Universe -- Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady-state theory -- Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers -- Robert Dicke and the Big Bang -- AIP interviews.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-278) and index.

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