Mt Stromlo Observatory

Ragbir Bhathal, Ralph Sutherland, Harvey Butcher

ISBN 10: 1486300758 / ISBN 13: 9781486300754

Verlag: CSIRO Publishing, AU, 2013

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781486300754

Inhaltsangabe:

This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G. Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before changing its focus to astrophysics - the new astronomy. In the ensuing years programs were introduced to push the Observatory in new directions at the international frontiers of astronomy. The astronomers built new, better and larger telescopes to unravel the secrets of the universe. There were controversies, exciting new discoveries and new explanations of phenomena that had been discovered. The Observatory and its researchers have contributed to determining how old the universe is, participated in the largest survey of galaxies in the universe, and helped to show us that the universal expansion is accelerating - research that led to Brian Schmidt and his international team being awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. These and other major discoveries are detailed in this fascinating book about one of the great observatories in the world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ragbir Bhathal is an award winning author and astrophysicist in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering at the University of Western Sydney. He has published eight books on astronomy and several papers in international refereed journals. He was the Foundation Director of the Singapore Science Centre, a UNESCO Consultant on science policy and science centres, and an Adviser to the Federal Minister for Science. He was awarded the prestigious Nancy Keesing Fellowship, the C J Dennis Award for excellence in natural history writing and the 1988 Royal Society of NSW medal for services to science and research. He is the Director of the Australian Optical SETI Project and a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mt Stromlo Observatory
Verlag: CSIRO Publishing, AU
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: New