Marcia Bartusiak
Autor de The Day We Found the Universe
Sobre El Autor
Marcia Bartusiak is Professor of the Practice, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the award-winning author of five previous books, including most recently The Day We Found the Universe.
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Obras de Marcia Bartusiak
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved (1656) 143 copias
Archives of the Universe: 100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos (2004) 106 copias
Through a Universe Darkly/a Cosmic Tale of Ancient Ethers, Dark Matter, and the Fate of the Universe (1993) 63 copias
Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy (2017) 27 copias
Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond (2018) 26 copias
A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier (1994) — algunas ediciones — 9 copias
Dispatches from Planet 3: 32 (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond (2018) 4 copias
Dark Matter . . . Not? 1 copia
Sky Gravity Wave 1 copia
Loops of Space 1 copia
Star Watch: Doubtful Elements 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950-01-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- American University (BA|Communications|1971)
Old Dominion University (BS|Physics) - Ocupaciones
- Journalist
Reporter
Educator (Professor of the Practice of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Science Writer - Premios y honores
- Andrew W. Gamant Award
2016 Black Hole, finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Science Writing Prize
2015 American Publishers Prose Award, Honorable Mention in the Cosmology & Astronomy category for Black Hole
2015 Black Hole longlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
2010 The Day We Found the Universe awarded the History of Science Society's Davis Prize for best history-of-science book for a general audience
2010 Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the science category for The Day We Found the Universe (mostrar todos 9)
2010 Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy
2009 Distinguished Alumni Award, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
2008 Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “exceptionally clear communication of the rich history, the intricate nature, and the modern practice of astronomy to the public at large”
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The Day We Found the Universe por Marcia Bartusiak
A good history of astronomy from the late 19th century to the 1930s that discusses the discovery of the true significance of spiral nebulae, the size of the universe and its expansion. Other advances during this time, e.g. the nature and classification of stars, are mostly not discussed. Many later misconceptions about who did what are debunked, and there is fascinating discussion of the people involved with no attempt to gloss over their often too human characteristics.
This was a terrific book.
Easy to read and understand.
Chock full of interesting people, theories, times, and information.
Seeing how it all comes together, one theory to the next, was fascinating.
Easy to read and understand.
Chock full of interesting people, theories, times, and information.
Seeing how it all comes together, one theory to the next, was fascinating.
Indeholder "Foreword", "Acknowledgments", "1. Marcia Bartusiak: Shake, Rattle, and Shine : New Methods of Probing the Sun's Interior", "2. T. A. Heppenheimer: A Positron named Priscilla. Trapping and Manipulating Atoms", "3. Michelle Hoffman: AIDS. Solving the Molecular Puzzle", "4. Anne Simon Moffat: Doubling Up. How the Genetic Code Replicates Itself", "5. Andrew Chaikin: Magellan's Venus. A World revealed", "6. Addison Greenwood: Clocks in the Earth? The Science of Earthquake Prediction", "7. Barbara Burke: The Mathematical Microscope. Waves, Wavelets, and Beyond", "8. T. A. Heppenheimer: A Family Affair. The Top Quark and the Higgs Particle", "9. Elizabeth J. Maggio: Bouncing Balls of Carbon. The Discovery and Promise of Fullerenes", "10. David Holzman: Fold, Spindle, and Regulate. How Proteins Work", "Appendixes", " A. Abstracts of Addition Sessions of the Frontiers of Science Symposia", " B. Symposia Programs", " C. About the Authors", "Index".
Helioseismology og diverse forsøg på at forklare at Superkamiokande og Homestead mines neutrinodetektorer kun så en tredjedel af de neutrinoer, man forventede.
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10 indlæg fra et Frontiers of Science symposium. De er bedagede, men ikke dumme at læse. Vi har fået bedre instrumenter, bedre data, bedre computere osv siden.… (más)
Helioseismology og diverse forsøg på at forklare at Superkamiokande og Homestead mines neutrinodetektorer kun så en tredjedel af de neutrinoer, man forventede.
???
10 indlæg fra et Frontiers of Science symposium. De er bedagede, men ikke dumme at læse. Vi har fået bedre instrumenter, bedre data, bedre computere osv siden.… (más)
This book is a fantastic, popular-science history of a pivotal era in astronomy: the moment in time when we went from a belief that the Milky Way was the Universe entire, to the knowledge that the Milky Way is but one galaxy in a Universe comprising billions of others.
Both the famous names (Hubble, Einstein, etc) and the less well-known players (Vesto Slipher, Milton Humason, Georges Lemaître, etc) are represented in this fascinating, well-written, and well-researched book.
Both the famous names (Hubble, Einstein, etc) and the less well-known players (Vesto Slipher, Milton Humason, Georges Lemaître, etc) are represented in this fascinating, well-written, and well-researched book.
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