From Eros to Gaia / Freeman Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Freeman J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Scientists.

Physics.

Physicists.

Astronomy.

Physical Description:

xi, 371 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1992]

Contents:

Sir Phillip Robert'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).

Notes:

"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

25009511