Asteroids to Quasars

A Symposium Honouring William Liller

Phyllis M. Lugger

308 pages, parution le 16/12/2004

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This festschrift volume is dedicated to William Liller, a noted observational astronomer who is now retired from a Harvard University named professorship. Nineteen of Liller's colleagues and former students (as well as Liller himself) give insightful reviews of the current state of a broad range of frontier astrophysical areas from the solar system to the limits of the observable universe. The reviews are of special interest to professional astronomers and students of astronomy, and are also accessible to the interested nonspecialist reader. The articles are well suited for providing graduate students in astronomy with an introduction to these topics. The authors describe their personal involvement in important research advances and convey a sense of the excitement of scientific discovery. The reader is given an overview of the advanced techniques used by today's observational astronomers for probing the mysteries of the cosmos, and of the theoretical interpretation of the observational findings.

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Asteroid dedication
William Liller: Biographical Sketch
William Liller: Autobiographical Meanderings
Preface
List of Participants
Conference Photo
Solar System Astronomy
Galactic Astronomy
Extragalactic Astronomy
History, Lore, and Archeoastronomy
Indexes

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Phyllis M. Lugger
Parution	16/12/2004
Nb. de pages	308
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	612g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521617048
ISBN13	978-0-521-61704-8