Biografien von Astronomen

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

Autor: Sara Seager

Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe

Autoren: George Smoot, Keay Davidson

The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos (Great Discoveries)

Autor: Michael Lemonick

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Vintage)

Autor: Michael Neufeld

LERNEN WIE EINSTEIN: Geheimnisse und Techniken, um besser zu lernen, Kreativität zu entwickeln und das Genie in Ihnen zu entdecken (Genius Strategies, Band 1)

Autor: Robert Meyer

Diario di un'apprendista astronauta (I delfini. Best seller)

Autor: Samantha Cristoforetti
Illustrator: Jessica Lagatta

Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography

Stillman Drake

Alexander Gerst: Biografie

Felix Westermühl

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

Jay Barbree

Neil Armstrong: Der erste Mensch auf dem Mond

Katrin Hahnemann

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

James R. Hansen

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer

Rob Manning, William L. Simon

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.

Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at N A S A's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.

Manning's fascinating personal account - which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists - is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Listeners experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity.

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Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World

L. S. Fauber

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Sabine Hossenfelder

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at C E R N, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.

Galileo Antichrist: A Biography

Michael White

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character (English Edition)

Autor: Richard P. Feynman

The Planets (English Edition)

Autor: Dava Sobel

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