Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1732
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English
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xiv, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Stellar tales -- Dark matter's -- Waiting on the stars -- Threads of research : a rotating universe and radio astronomy -- Chasing stars -- A clumpy cosmos -- Career challenges and galactic questions -- A taste of astronomy -- At last, a real astronomer -- Andromeda's young, hot stars -- The matter...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
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Massachusetts
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[2021]
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"The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and then was passed over for the Nobel prize"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/1732
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74VKaazDOlRb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaazDOlRb
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0262046121
9780262046121
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520.92
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991024420915802626
