A Concise History of Solar and Stellar PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 2014 M11 28 - 304 pages This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. |
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Jean-Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul. A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul.
Jean-Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul. A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul and Monique Tassoul PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright ©2004 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton ...
... Solar Models The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (I) The Double-Star Problem Early Views of Stellar Evolution Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910 ...
... Solar and Stellar Hydrodynamics Chapter 5. The Golden Age: 1940–1970 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Nuclear Reactions and Energy Production in Stars Calculation of Stellar Structure A Brief Survey of Stellar Evolution Postgiant ...
... solar spectrum Gustav Kirchhoff Johann Christian Doppler Pieter Zeeman Black-body radiation The solar activity cycle Karl Schwarzschild Edward C. Pickering A group of staff members at the Harvard College Observatory The Hertzsprung ...
Contents
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16101910 | 29 |
18401910 | 66 |
19101940 | 94 |
19401970 | 133 |
1970 | 192 |
Epilogue | 247 |
Appendix A Lanes Fully Convective Gas Spheres | 250 |
Appendix C Ritters Theory of Pulsating Stars | 252 |
Appendix D Radial and Nonradial Stellar Pulsations | 254 |
Appendix E Bohrs Model of the Atom | 257 |
Appendix F Einsteins MassEnergy Relation | 260 |
Appendix G Three Important Nuclear Reactions | 263 |
General Bibliography | 265 |
Index of Names | 269 |
Index of Subjects | 277 |
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