Dreams, Stars, and Electrons

Selected Writings of Lyman Spitzer, Jr.

Lyman S. Spitzer, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

1997
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03702-8 (ISBN)

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Lyman Spitzer Jr. is an astronomer whose work has contributed to the understanding of interstellar space and plasma physics. The 30 papers contained in this volume have been selected for their relevance to research.

Lyman Spitzer, Jr., is a leading astronomer whose work has revolutionized our understanding of interstellar space and plasma physics. In addition, his proposals for a large telescope in space led after many decades to the Hubble Space Telescope. Dreams, Stars, and Electrons contains some thirty of his papers, selected mainly for their relevance to present research. Some of these works have previously not been readily available. A commentary by the author, preceding each paper, gives interesting background information and summarizes some more recent work.

Part I of the book is devoted to twelve papers on the gas and dust in interstellar space, beginning with the author's theory (now accepted fact) that this interstellar material in spiral galaxies is the birthplace of young stars. The final interstellar paper summarizes the extensive results obtained by the Princeton/NASA Copernicus satellite. In Part II eight papers discuss problems of stellar dynamics, including systematic acceleration of stars in random passage near interstellar clouds. Other papers analyze the evolution of a spherical cluster in the absence of external perturbations. Part III deals primarily with the early development and present performance of the Hubble telescope; and Part IV, with plasma physics, including controlled fusion. More personal writings are included in Part V.

Lyman Spitzer, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Princeton University and was Director of the Princeton University Observatory for some thirty-five years. Jeremiah P. Ostriker is Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy and is Provost at Princeton University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.2.1997
Zusatzinfo	6 halftones 36 line drawings 42 tables
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	964 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Plasmaphysik
ISBN-10	0-691-03702-7 / 0691037027
ISBN-13	978-0-691-03702-8 / 9780691037028
Zustand	Neuware