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Author: Giovanni F Bignami
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Imprint: Springer Verlag
Edition: 2012 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9788847024656
ISBN 10: 884702465
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 07 June 2012
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
From the reviews: “This book is ideal for general readers who would like a simplified overview of some of the hot topics and issues in cosmology and ‘contact astronomy’. … it offers facts and theories, as well as open-to-thought ideas on origins. … A large slice of the book reiterates pivotal theories as to what happened after the beginning of the Universe. … A further topic of this book is the possibility of developed forms of life and technological civilizations beyond the Solar System.” (P. Chapman-Rietschi, The Observatory, Vol. 133 (1233), April, 2013) “In We are the Martians Professor Bignami connects Cosmology with Biology through a 13.7 billion year journey from the first few minutes after the Big Bang … to the formation of planetary systems from embryonic protoplanetary discs. The book goes on to explore exo-planets discovered around other stars and their means of discovery. … The author has done an excellent job of keeping difficult subjects understandable and in doing so has created a thought provoking work that is a joy to read … .” (Paul Rumsby, Best Astronomy Books, September, 2012)
From the reviews: In We are the Martians Professor Bignami connects Cosmology with Biology through a 13.7 billion year journey from the first few minutes after the Big Bang ... to the formation of planetary systems from embryonic protoplanetary discs. The book goes on to explore exo-planets discovered around other stars and their means of discovery. ... The author has done an excellent job of keeping difficult subjects understandable and in doing so has created a thought provoking work that is a joy to read ... . (Paul Rumsby, Best Astronomy Books, September, 2012)
Author Information
Professor Giovanni Fabrizio BIGNAMI is a physicist and astronomer. Over the last 40 years he has carried out research in astronomy, from the ground and from space. A professor of astrophysics at IUSS, Pavia, he has been President of the Italian Space Agency and is now the President of COSPAR, the world-wide Committee on Space Research. He is President of The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and has received various awards, including the Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences and the von Karman Award of the International Astronautics Academy. Professor Bignami is one of the most authoritative scientists in astrophysical and space research and identified the neutron star ""Geminga.""
