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Einband grossThe Universal Timekeepers
ISBN/GTIN

The Universal Timekeepers

E-BookEPUBDRM AdobeE-Book
Englisch
Columbia University Presserschienen am19.09.2023
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TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR18,00
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EUR17,49

Produkt

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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9780231558686
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Format HinweisDRM Adobe
FormatE101
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum19.09.2023
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse4030 Kbytes
Illustrationen33 figures
Artikel-Nr.11432735
Rubriken
Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Calling the Witnesses to History
2. Conceptualizing the Atom: From Philosophy to Science
3. The Atom: A Utilitarian View
4. The Elements: Our Complete Set of Blocks
5. Isotopes: Elemental Flavors
6. Radioactivity: The Imperturbable Clock
7. Stolen and Forged: Forensic Art History
8. The Carbon Clock: Pinning Down Dates
9. History Without Words: Lime and Lead and Poop
10. You Are What You Eat
11. Paleoclimate: Taking the Earth's Temperature Long Ago
12. The Death of the Dinosaurs: An Atomic View
13. Evolution: From Meteorites to Cyanobacteria
14. What's Up in the Air? Earth's Evolving Atmosphere
15. Our Sun's Birthday: The Solar System in Formation
16. Stardust Creation: Building the Building Blocks
17. In the Beginning
Epilogue: A Quark's Tale
Glossary
Notes
Indexmehr

Autor

David J. Helfand, former chair of the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, has served on Columbia's faculty for nearly five decades. He was also president and vice chancellor of Quest University Canada. Helfand is the chair of the American Institute of Physics and a past president of the American Astronomical Society. His commentary has appeared in Nature, Physics Today, the Globe and Mail, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among other publications, and he is the author of A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind (Columbia, 2016).