Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr.
Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr.
Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/4349
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English
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viii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Noted young men of science -- Glarus thrust -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: the bones of the earth -- The bigger and better elephant -- Quantum steak and matrix salad -- The expanding universe and tired light -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: the skeleton of the universe -- New alliances, new ph...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2019.
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Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. He predicted the existence of neutron stars, and his research pointed the way toward the discovery of pulsars and black holes. He was the first to conceive of the existence of dark matter, the first to make a detailed catalog of thousands of galaxies, a...
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Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/4349
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74VKV5w43Z3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5w43Z3l
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0674979672 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674979673 hardcover alkaline paper
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523.01092 B
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991024266018502626
