A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975
- ISBN-10
- 0674366670
- ISBN-13
- 9780674366671
- Pages
- 942
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Authors
- Owen Gingerich, Kenneth Lang, Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science Owen Gingerich
Description
In this volume readers can rediscover A.S. Eddington's elegant proof of the virial theorem for star clusters, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky's 1932 proposal for the existence of neutron stars, and Thomas Gold's forecast of collapsed stars as ...
