Edward van den Heuvel

The Amazing Unity of the Universe (eBook, PDF)

And Its Origin in the Big Bang

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Originaltitel: Oerknal: Oorsprong van de eenheid van het heelal
• Seitenzahl: 315
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319235431
• Artikelnr.: 46938842

Autorenporträt

Edward van den Heuvel received his Ph.D.in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Utrecht in 1968. He worked at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1968 to 1969, at the University of Utrecht from 1969 to 1974, and at the University of Brussels from 1970 to 1980. Since 1974 he has been Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam and until 2005, Director of the Astronomical Institute there. He has been awarded the Physica Prize (the highest prize of the Netherlands Physical Society NNV), the Spinoza Prize (the highest science prize of the Netherlands) and the Descartes Prize (the highest science prize of the European Commission). Professor van den Heuvel was a Board Member and Chair of the Netherlands Space Research Organization, Chair of the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, a Board Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the Founding Chair of the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy. Professor van den Heuvel's fields of expertise include stellar evolution, the physics of neutron stars and black holes, X-ray astronomy and radio pulsars.

Inhaltsangabe

Our Strange Universe.- The Sun's Backyard: Our Solar System.- How Distant Are the Stars?- The Discovery of the Structure of Our Milky Way Galaxy.- The Chemical Composition of the Sun and Stars.- Other Galaxies and the Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe.- Gravity According to Galilei, Newton, Einstein and Mach.- Einstein, de Sitter, Friedmann, Lemaitre and the Evolution of the Universe.- The Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe.- The Origin of the Matter in the Universe.- We Are Made of Stardust: Timescales of the Universe and of Life.- Is the Universe Open, Closed or Flat? The Horizon Problem, the Flatness Problem and Inflation.- Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Our Strange Universe.- Ripples in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.- Time in the Universe.- From Universe to Multiverse.- Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe.- Epilogue.- Appendices.