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Stardust

Stardust

by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

CosmochemistrySupernovaeScienceScience/MathematicsAstronomy - General
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Focusing on the relationship between the universe and the Earth and presenting a history of the scientific study of astronomy, the authors discuss the idea that "we are made of stardust--and so is all life as we know it."--Jacket.

Themes & subjects

CosmochemistrySupernovaeScienceScience/MathematicsAstronomy - GeneralScience / Astronomy

About the authors

John R. Gribbin
John R. Gribbin

19 March 1946

John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. - WikipediaJohn R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946)[1] is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.[2] His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction. -Wikipedia

Mary Gribbin
Mary Gribbin

1946 or 1947

Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won The TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe, and has written a series of books for Ladybird. She has also worked with John Gribbin on Being Human, Ice Age, and major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, as well as the "in 90 minutes" series of mini-biographies of Galileo, Newton, Halley, Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Curie, and Einstein.-GoodReads

Authors

John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Yale University Press

ISBN

9780300084191

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