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A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars

Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 2-5 2005

A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars( )
Editor: Livio, Mario
Sahu, Kailash
Valenti, Jeff
Series title:Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-89784-6
Publication Date:Jun 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $140.00
Book Description:

These proceedings from the 2005 Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium on Extrasolar Planets explore one of the hottest topics in astronomy. This collection of review papers, written by world experts in their fields, provides an important resource for both professional researchers and graduate students.

Book Details
Pages:196
Detailed Subjects: Science / Space Science / Planetary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.942 x 9.867 x 0.624 Inches
Book Weight:1.188 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Mario Livio was born in 1945 in Romania. When he was 5 years old, he immigrated with his grandparents to Israel. He received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a M.Sc. degree in theoretical particle physics at the Weizmann Institute, and a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Tel-Aviv University. He was a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1991. He is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.

He has published over 400 scientific papers. He has also written several books including The Accelerating Universe, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, Is God a Mathematician?, and Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. The Golden Ratio received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize.

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