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Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Sarah Scoles.
Van Pelt Library QB36.T375 S36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scoles, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tarter, Jill C.
- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.).
- Extraterrestrial beings--Research.
- Extraterrestrial beings.
- Women astronomers--United States--Biography.
- Women astronomers.
- Research.
- United States.
- SCIENCE / Astronomy.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics.
- Local Subjects:
- SCIENCE / Astronomy.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
- Contents:
- How'd a nice girl like you get into a field like this?
- Babies, brown dwarfs, and big moves
- Making the Allen Telescope Array
- The future of the alien-hunting telescope
- A question for our time
- The politics of science and new projects
- The quest for contact
- the last chapter
- Extremophiles and exoplanets
- Shouting into the void
- A timeline of SETI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781681774411
- 1681774410
- OCLC:
- 959809050
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