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A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science

Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11-14 2000

A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science( )
Editor: Livio, Mario
Noll, Keith S.
Stiavelli, Massimo
Contribution by: Fall, Michael
Series title:Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-82459-0
Publication Date:Jun 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $110.00
Book Description:

The Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy. From its vantage point 600km above the Earth, Hubble is able to capture images and spectra that would be difficult or impossible to obtain from the ground. This volume represents some of the most important scientific achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope in its first decade of operation. Written by world experts, this is an indispensable collection of review articles for...
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Book Details
Pages:270
Detailed Subjects: Science / Space Science / Astronomy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.942 x 9.945 x 0.78 Inches
Book Weight:1.68 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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