Title Taking the back off the watch : a personal memoir / Thomas Gold ; edited by Simon Mitton

Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource : portraits Series Astrophysics and space science library, 0067-0057 ; 381 Astrophysics and space science library ; 381. Contents School Years in Troubled Times -- Wartime Student Days -- Wartime Work for the British Navy -- Return to Cambridge: The Citadel of Learning -- Appointment at the Royal Greenwich Observatory -- Move to America -- Move to Cornell -- The Pulsar Era -- NASA: The Love-Hate Relationship -- Origin of Petroleum on Earth -- Earthquakes -- Unfinished Business Summary Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy throughout his career. Based on a full-length autobiography left behind by Thomas Gold, this book was edited by the astrophysicist and historian of science, Simon Mitton (University of Cambridge). The book is a retrospective on Gold's remarkable life. He fled from Vienna in 1933, eventually settling in England and completing an engineering degree at Trinity College in Cambridge. During the war, he worked on naval radar research alongside Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi - which, in an unlikely chain of events, eventually led to his working with them on steady-state cosmology. In 1968, shortly after their discovery, he provided the explanation of pulsars as rotating neutron stars. In his final position at Cornell, he and his colleagues persuaded the US Defense Department to fund the conversion of the giant radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico into a superb instrument for radio astronomy. Gold's interests covered physiology, astronomy, cosmology, geophysics, and engineering. Written in an intriguing style and with an equally intriguing foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book constitutes an important historical document, made accessible to all those interested in the history of science. ¡ Analysis Physics Science -- History Mines and mineral resources Astronomy Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology History of Science Mineral Resources Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Gold, Thomas. SUBJECT Gold, Thomas fast Subject Astronomers -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology. SCIENCE -- Astronomy. Physique. Astronomie. Astronomers Genre/Form collective biographies. autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Mitton, Simon, 1946- ISBN 9783642275883 3642275885

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