Beating the odds :The life and times of E.A. Milne /Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose. -Singapore :Imperial College Press,2013

282 tr. ;23 cm

This book is born out of curiosity. The author's aim is to show the human face of science, how the course of her father's life was shaped by circumstance and by the influence of illustrious friends and colleagues such as Einstein, Eddington, G H Hardy, J B S Haldane, Hubble, F A Lindemann and Rutherford. Against all odds, Milne emerged as a scientific powerhouse — and a rebellious one at that

1.Astrophysicists2.Astrophysics3.Religion and science4.Cosmology

523.01092SM - M

9781848169074