From Eros to Gaia / Freeman Dyson.
- Dyson, Freeman J.
- Date:
- 1993
- Books
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London : Penguin, 1993.
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xi, 371 pages ; 20 cm.
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Contents
Sir Phillip Roberts's erolunar collision (1933) -- On being the right size : reflections on the ecology of scientific projects (1988) -- Six cautionary tales for scientists (1988) -- Telescopes and accelerators (1988) -- Sixty years of space science, 1958-2018 (1988) -- The importance of being unpredictable (1990)-- Strategic bombing in World War 2 and today : has anything changed? (1990) -- Field theory (1953) -- Innovation in physics (1958) -- Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman awarded Nobel Prize for physics (1965) -- Energy in the universe (1971) -- Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the biosphere (1990) -- The future of physics (1970) -- Unfashionable pursuits (1981) -- Astronomy in a private sphere (1984) -- To teach or not to teach (1990) -- Pugwash 1962 (1962) -- Death of a project (1965) -- Human consequences of the exploration of space (1968) -- The hidden costs of saying no (1974) -- Pupin (1960) -- Oppenheimer (1980) -- Heims (1980) -- Manin and Forman (1982) -- Kennan (1982) -- Oppenheimer again (1989) -- Morson and Tolstoy (1989)
Letter from Armenia (1971) -- Brittle silence (1981) -- Helen Dukas (1982) -- Paul Dirac (1986) -- Beacons (1988) -- Kennan again (1988) -- Feynman in 1948 (1989) -- The face of Gaia (1989).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-361) and index
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- 0140174230