The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

ISBN-13: 9780861540068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Emily Levesque

Opis

The story of the people who see beyond the stars...

Recenzje

'The awesome endeavours and intellectual adventures in the physical practice and gains in understanding that are the heart and passion of astronomers is gloriously portrayed from the mind of a wonderful practitioner, Emily Levesque.

Her range of experiences and insights through the recent period of rapid developments and future planning in this progressive human effort gloriously reach out to everyone.'

Professor Alec Boksenberg, former director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory

O autorze

Levesque, Emily

Emily Levesque is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. She has won the American Astronomical Society's Annie Jump Cannon Prize and been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. She is the author of two academic works on astrophysics and has written for Physics Today. She lives in Seattle. @emsque