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Astrophysics of Life

Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 6-9 2002

Astrophysics of Life( )
Editor: Livio, Mario
Reid, I. Neill
Sparks, William B.
Series title:Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Ser.
ISBN:978-0-511-53611-3
Publication Date:Aug 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $165.00
Book Description:

Originally published in 2002 as part of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium series which details the astrophysical groundwork required for locating habitable places in the Universe. Written by leading scientists in the field, this is an indispensable collection of articles for research.

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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